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New Weather Station

23rd January 202123rd January 2021 Robert Dunne
Netatmo Weather Station

Recently my old weather station decided to stop working, it has been in service for some time so I got good value out of it, but with it running Cumulus-Mx to do the website upgrade and on a Windows 10 Stick computer, it was getting be very unreliable. So I splashed out on the Netatmo…

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Contest Callsign Pt2

3rd November 20193rd November 2019 Robert Dunne

Well I am still working contests and trying to qualify for a Contest Callsign. As stated in Contest Callsign I took part in the BARTG Sprint 75 earlier this year and then again in the 2nd BARTG Sprint 75 in Sept. Im glad to say that in the first one I came 1st in the…

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Cricket World Cup – GB19 Special Event Station

18th June 201918th June 2019 Robert Dunne

At the time of writing the Cricket World Cup is underway here in the UK. And to help celebrate/promote this event on the airwaves the RSGB has setup 21 or so Special Event Stations for members of the RSGB Contest Club to Operate. So far we have managed to get over 140000 QSOs on various…

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Satellite Setup

2nd June 20192nd June 2019 Robert Dunne

In one of my earlier posts I mentioned I had started looking at getting setup for operating on satellites. Well I have finally managed to get this working. The setup consists of the following: 2m Wimo X-quad beam with phasing harness to make it RHC Polarised 70cm Wimo X-quad beam with phasing harness to make…

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Contest Callsign

2nd June 2019 Robert Dunne

Over the past few months I have been trying to work out what contests I have taken part in that qualify for my application for a contest callsign. I had not realised but I came first in the CQ WPX CW last year, so that gives me two points for the 5 I need. I…

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Recent Activities

24th March 20192nd June 2019 Robert Dunne

So I have not posted for some time, family life has been busy and work has also been keeping me away from being able to play. So what have I been up to? Since my last post on the new kit I have been enjoying using the Flex 6600M, its a great radio for CW,…

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New addition to the shack…

15th August 201815th August 2018 Robert Dunne

I had been considering the new Flex 6600 for some time. I liked the GUI because it had and easier to navigate structure and the old PowerSDR front end was getting a bit tired. Another feature that I found myself missing more was the knobs.. I was using the Hercules DJ console more and more…

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GR0MGM – Special call for Royal Wedding

19th May 2018 Robert Dunne

Due to the Royal Wedding station in the UK have been able to register for a special callsign to operate from the 19th May until the 21st May 2018, I decided to get one to see what I could do. I managed to get a couple of hours free this afternoon and thought I would…

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1st SOTA, at last!

7th May 2018 Robert Dunne

For the past two years or so I have been very keen to try doing some SOTA activities. I have been building up the equipment I need to do so and I have been building antennas. The biggest hurdle was learning CW. I passed my Class A RAE license back on 1989 with included 12wpm…

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Portable 3 Band EFHW antenna

19th April 2018 Robert Dunne

So finally the UK has been granted some nice weather, so I took the opportunity to try to finish making and tune the 3 Band EFHW that I have made to go with the MTR5B  cw only Trx. I got the idea from reading Michael G0POT’s blog and attending his SOTA presentation at last years…

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