Friday, 14 March 2025

"Understanding VHF Propagation" by Rohde and Schwarz

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Thanks to John, EI7GL, for posting details of this YouTube video. Anything which suggests that VHF propagation is almost never "line of...
Friday, 28 February 2025

Fifty years an amateur started here

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 On 4 February 2025 I reflected on this being the 50th anniversary of me becoming a licensed radio amateur. I have already explained at very...
Friday, 17 January 2025

Winter - a good time for some VHF DX?

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My last band report covered up to 11 December. The month after that is usually a quick decline into winter conditions. Not this year.  The ...
Wednesday, 1 January 2025

Wonderful year of 6m DX - well not quite what it seemed

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I read "2024 - worldwide F2 DX on 6m". Not here anyway. Good, yes. Very good, at times. But worldwide? Certainly not from here. Fi...
Monday, 16 December 2024

A good tropo opening to the East

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The Hepburn Tropo map (link on the sidebar) suggested that 10 December might be pretty good for tropo... Hepburn Tropo Index 10 December 202...
Thursday, 5 December 2024

The "New Normal?" Not for long I think.

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Looking at the three days 2 to 4 December 2024 I had contacts with six stations on 6m. But what contacts!  Best DX was VK6TM (OG65, 13871km)...
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Monday, 25 November 2024

Winkling out those hard to get squares

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Counting Maidenhead grid squares is widely done by VHF/UHF amateurs. To some extent this is because "countries" in the DXCC sense ...