Just a note to say that the GM3WOJ 3 cm personal beacon is off the air until further notice. Chris switched it off today. A problem has occurred with a birch tree growing up in front of the dish over

Does anybody on the group know if the Eyal Gal 10.4 GHz units that were on EBay can be used with high side LO injection? eg 10368 - 10800 = -432 to give a reverse tuning IF on 432. I am unsure it thes

Yesterday Alan GM0USI and I went to Gatehouse (IO74WV) and had contacts on 24 GHz with Tony G(W)4CBW in IO83HH near Prestatyn. Signals were 59 each way and we ended up working on FM. There appeared to

I also bought one of these units from a guy in Italy on Ebay. They are what were referred to as Endwave units a few years back. The group is here: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/24GHzHam/info If

Graham Knight is now running a personal beacon on 10,368.450 MHz from IO87WB near Aberdeen. He has a very clear take-off south over the north sea. Some of you will know Graham of old from 2m SSB! The

Early next week I am going to install a personal 3 cm beacon at Graham Knight's QTH (IO87WB) near Aberdeen. I will have an excellent take-off over the north sea to the south towards East Anglia! The f

Hi Mark, Many thanks for the report. I will keep it on for about 1 week but there may be short breaks as want to replace some of the internal cabling. I hope to be able to get it installed a FFX's ove

I am currently soak testing a 10 GHz personal beacon to go to Aberdeen at my QTH (IO85JV). It is on 10,368.450. The power level is +32dBm at it is running into a horn pointed at the Shotts and Blackhi

Hi Andy Yes please. I have 3 LMX2541 chips looking for homes! Been using them in 3 cm beacons GM3WOJ and GM8FFX (still under development. 73s Brian, GM8BJF

The streaming audio of GM3WOJ's personal 10 GHz beacon on 10,368.400 MHz isback on . The Rx has moved a short distance across Edinburgh to a betterlocation. The path is 215 km across the Grampians. It

Chris, I have a few round WG20 screw-up rings, no actual flanges for that type. I do however also have some WG20 round flanges with the tapped holes/captive screws. Can't remember their proper name. I

Hi Chris, Great to see you again at the GMRT. We did briefly mention the of the GPS Modules from China on Ebay. The ones I have used were for timing applications only and I was only after the NEMA dat

I have used Jackaltac based in Eire. (They actually send the files to S Africa). They seem to be the hobby end of PCB-Pool. The boards have been good quality double sided through hole with solder resi

GM3WOJ/B is loud in Edinburgh at present on RS. Might be audible further south ?? Listen to http://gm8bjf.no-ip.org:5700 73s brian

I have had to change the dynamic IP address for my streaming audio server following Microsoft's legal action against No-IP in the courts of Nevada! See Microsoft's "draconian" No-IP takedown hits mill

Can we adopt a more positive note on this stream. It seems to have been hi-jacked into into back-biting and complaining!! I thought that a new beacon in the outer reaches would be good! ;-) Remember i

Hi Nick, Interested in your thoughts on it. I have noticed that the signal picks up in the evenings as it is getting dark. The wx is pretty settled at present and it will be interesting to see what ha

I have been monitoring the GM3WOJ personal beacon in IO77WS. It is a consistant signal at my QTH in Edinburgh. It is audible above the noise all of the time on a 40cm dish. I would be interested in re

I am now continuously monitoring the signal at my home QTH in Edinburgh IO85JV. It is audible all of the time varying a bit with conditions. The distance is 215 km over the top of the Cairngorms (~120

We have just installed a 3 cm personal beacon at GM3WOJ's QTH, IO77WS, near Invergordon. It is on 10368.400MHz and runs JT4G. The antenna is on a heading of 165 degrees, pointing at the Caingorms, Edi