Hello Gedas, For many years (20 years or) I had regular contacts with a station 200km away on 3cm. On the rare occasions when we didn't make the contact it was on a cold winter night when the sky was

Callsign: G4LDR Locator: IO91EC02 Bands: 5.7GHz 15W 1.5m dish 10GHz 25W 1.0m dish Talkback: ON4KST, maybe Zello, 144.390MHz Times: Various times, although there is a thunderstorm warning for the area

G4LDR; I will have be QRV from home, IO91EC02, near Salisbury. Bands: 24GHz (on tower), good to east and Walbury and to The Blorenge. 47GHz and 76GHz at ground level, (only good to the east, towards W

Hello Keith, There have been postings on 'moon-net' recently. ON0EME is off the air (has been for a while now). The azimth/elevation drive has suffered a major failure which may require a crane to lif

I am hoping to be on for part of the day only (depends if my wife has to work at the COVID-19 vacination hub), so no roving this time! Callsign: G4LDR/P Location: IO91GC68 (3km East of Stockbridge, Ha

Please note, that the time is 20:00 British Summer Time (BST) i.e.19:00 UTC(GMT). Neil G4LDR

Well done Chris and Roger. That is going to be hard to beat at least until the humidity drops again to the levels seen this week. We should also keep tabs on the best UK DX achieved by the VK systems

On Monday evening, 29th March, GB3KBQ was the strongest I had ever heard it, 599 + a lot, (normally 529). I have a regular sked with Adrian G4UVZ on Monday evenings on 3cm. Signals were 59+++++ last n

The next UKuG on-line talk will be; Care and Feeding of Yagi’s – by Kent Britain WA5VJB - Wednesday Feb-10 at 20:00 UTC Some interesting ways to doing Yagi’s and myths of Yagi Stacking. The talks will

Hello Colin, Just checked on my message above, it took me straight to last nights talk. If you are having problems try going to the RSGB home page and find the 'Tonight at 8' page and select the talk

Hello, The talk on 'Starting Out on Microwaves' which I gave last night as part of the RSGB 'Tonight at 8' series of webinars is now available on the RSGB YouTube channel https://youtu.be/lNWG7dLhh7s

Hello Neil, I last built a transverter for 10GHz back in the 1990s; based on the design of Charlie, G3WDG. It would be fun to build one again. Please put me down for one pcb. Thanks Neil G4LDR

Hello Ben, This is not new. It has been in place since the MoD had to relocate some of their systems into the region around 2320MHz (we share much of the 13cm band with the MoD and they used to use pa

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The next on-line talk will be at 20:00UTC on Wednesday 13th January 2021. 122 GHz and the VK3CV transceiver – by Barry Chambers G8AGN Barry G8AGN will be covering 122 GHz and the VK3CV transceiver boa

Hello Howard, Buying slew drives from China should not cost any more now than before the 1st January 2021 because China is not in the EU! I had three slew drives manufactured in China last year and im

Paul, Details of our Wednesday evening talks are on the UKuG web site. The lectures will appear on the UKuG YouTube channel, not BATC. Again once details on the web site as soon as the talks have been

Please see the following links to the latest information from the RSGB regarding the second stage of OFCOM consultation on EMF Exposure Limits https://rsgb.org/main/blog/news/rsgb-notices/2020/11/02/u

I intend to be operating portable on Sunday as follows: Callsign: G4LDR/P Locator: IO91**** Sites around the Salisbury, Andover, Winchester areas, TBD. Bands: 24GHz, 1W; 76GHz 15mW, 122GHz, 0.0005mW T

Callsign, G4LDR Locator, IO91EC02 Bands, 10GHz and 5.7GHz Talkback, 144.390, KST, (Zello perhaps) Times, Hope to be QRV for some periods throughout the contest after about 10:00UTC. 73 Neil G4LDR.

I hope to be operational on Sunday. Callsign: G4LDR/P Locator: IO91?? TBD (Will include Stockbridge Hampshire) Bands: 24GHz, 1W, 38cm dish; 27GHz, 250mW, 30cm dish; 76Hz, 15mW, 15cm lens horn Talkback