Monday, 22 September 2025

The return of me, TEP, and a tentative theory of how I hear TEP in Scotland

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 At last! Something to attract me back on to the radio. Over the past two days I have been able to work into southern Africa via Trans Equat...
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Thursday, 11 September 2025

The Sound of Silence

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My last amateur radio contact was on 3 September, over a week ago. Even then, I have not been really active since 28 August, two weeks ago. ...
Sunday, 24 August 2025

Long distance 23cm aircraft scatter

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The result: 590km QSO on 23 cms. The recipe: IC-9700, 150W, 28el yagi with 1.5m boom, Airscout. Once again, when I started on 1296MHz I woul...
Tuesday, 19 August 2025

FT8 etc, weak audio, try unticking audio enhancements in Windows

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A fellow ham was having problems with the audio stream on data modes after he switched to a new Windows 11 laptop. It emerged eventually tha...
Thursday, 14 August 2025

What to do at the end of the current solar cycle - 432MHz?

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What, is it over? Well, no, but I have been thinking about what to do when it is. The answer appears to be that I should "do more of th...
Tuesday, 5 August 2025

VHF propagation changes like the weather

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I think of the Solar Cycle as being like the annual climate chart, changing over a longer period of 11 years, but vaguely predictable in the...
Friday, 1 August 2025

Scotland to China opening on 50MHz

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Did I get this wrong? In my last post I suggested:- As I write this on 23 July I am assuming that these propagation modes have closed for th...
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