If you are going to be starting down the long and rocky road to becoming ans Amateur Radio Operator in the UK, then really you need to buy some books. Continue reading full post…
Back in May this year, 6 weeks into the First Lockdown, having no prospects of getting to go anywhere to test them properly, I bought myself a pair of Floureon M-880 PMR446 Walkie Talkies.
Earlier this year, before the country went insane again, we managed to have a holiday in Southport. I love Southport. It has just enough junk shops to keep me happy, but not so many that I get Junk Shop Fatigue. Anyway, I was enticed into one by an old GPO telephone in the window, but ended up buying this instead:
Recently I got utterly titsed off with my ISP denying that there was a problem with my connection. At certain times every day, my connection would drop, I would ring them up, and they would claim there wasn’t a fault. Continue reading full post…
As I work in a job which is overseen by the local Borough Council, I thought it might be a good idea to work out exactly what their area of remit was, as sometimes they don’t seem to know. Continue reading full post…
Note: I have been informed that my information on GB3ZI is out of date. In fact it is totally off-air now.
Since I passed my Amateur Radio Foundation Exam a couple of months ago – mainly thanks to the excellent course run by Essex Ham (yes, I am aware that I live quite a way from Essex, but that does not matter) – I’ve been using the two local repeaters:
If you’ve ever wondered what the current boundary for the Stafford Parliamentary Constituency is, well I’ve made a map thing for you. Continue reading full post…
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