New FM satellite AO-91 now live
Tom
A new FM repeater AMSAT satellite AO-91 has just been opened up for general use. Other than it being very popular and thus very busy in the early days, it…
2017
The Great Construction Contest – 9th Nov, Woodford Park
John Gumb
The great construction contest is on again. It doesn’t matter that you haven’t painted it yet, or haven’t powered up the PA, or that you made it years ago and…
Another ISS SSTV event this weekend
Another series of SSTV transmissions from the International Space Station is under way, running throughout this weekend. Listen out on 145.800 FM. A handheld up to a smartphone’s mic will…
Sharp Resonance: A Low cost Audio filter from Screwfix; mag loop update
Tony Canning G2NF has an intriguing evening lined up for us next meeting: Thursday 12th October, Woodford Park Leisure Centre, Woodley, 8pm Some of you will remember his superb talk…
HF Digital Voice (HF-DV) communications by Dr. Alison Johnston, G8ROG
Dr. Alison Johnston G8ROG will be with us on Thursday 28th September to tell us all about the “high quality” voice communications now possible on HF. Venue: Woodford Park Sports…
David Honey
The events leading up to and including the Battle of Britain by Chris Wren MBE
Next meeting is on Thursday 14th September entitled “The events leading up to and including the Battle of Britain by Chris Wren MBE”. Venue: Woodford Park, Woodley, 8pm. Refreshments to…
X8.2 Solar flare
I was on 20m working EU and DX stations using FT8 this afternoon. Just after 16:00, I noticed all signals faded quite markedly and within a minute or two. It…
Overdriven audio on FT8, or other data modes
This evening I came across a terrible signal on 15m FT8. The audio from a Cuban station sounded distorted. I won’t name and shame the station. The audio fundamental was…
New FT8 data mode versus JT65 and JT9
I’ve been trying JT65 andf JT9 for about 5 weeks now. I thought I’d give FT8 a try. This is a new data mode designed by Joe Taylor, K1JT, and…
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