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• Can This Improve Your Operating? It Did Mine!
• Off-Road Radioing on 2m FM
• Full Demonstration of Portable Station Build and Contesting
• Lowering the Mast!
• DX Fest 2026
• Hearing the Space Station from a Car Park!
• More DX-by-the-sea
• DX-by-the-sea
• New Mains Inverter for Portable Ops.
• 3x Antenna Builds for the 6m Magic Band
• Sporadic-E 6m DX (SSB & FT8)
• Storm Damage when working Portable
• Portable HF Activation in the Sun
• Can I improve the performance of my 2m mobile setup with this new Diamond antenna?
• Dipole Maintenance
• 2m Contest Setup
• Loop On The Ground RFI Problem Fixed!
• Adding Lots More Radials to my 1/4 Wave Vertical Antenna(s)
• Dual-Band 2m/70cm Antenna Build, Tune & Test
• Enjoying Portable 2m FM & SSB!
• Radioing in the Snow - Merry Christmas!
• 🎼 “I’m CQing in the rain 🎵, just CQing in the rain…☔️”
• A Chance Geminid Meteor & Listening to Meteor Scatter
• Enjoying Great Views While DX'ing on The Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides
• Isle of Lewis DXpedition 2025
• 80m FT8 - Dipole vs. Vertical
• Chasing Greyline DX On 40m Using FT8
• The last of the daylight…
• DXing on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland
• The joy that Is STATIC RAIN!
• Getting TX/RX Audio out of a Yaesu FTDX10
• Tracking a Radio Beacon up into the Stratosphere!
• Beacon Success! Brilliant for 10mW! (Part 2)
• Bolton Wireless Club 2m Beacon Project - Listening... (Part 1)
• Chasing DX - Working HF Portable (Vertical Dipole & Ground 1/4 Wave)
• Visiting DX Commander HQ
• Download Your Own ISS Pictures Live From Space!
• Capturing Live International Space Station Picture Transmissions
• Simple Multi-Band Vertical With No Radials! On-Air Tests
• VHF National Field Day Preparations- Blowing A Gale 😮
• A Near Miss!
• Rotator Failure 😮
• Going Fishing on 6m
• Simple Multiband Vertical Antenna - No Radials!
• Working 2m Portable on a Country Hike
• Notch Demonstration
• Doubling the power!
• Working 6m Sporadic-E on a HF Antenna
• Introduction to UHF Contesting (& some interesting challenges)
• Great Performing 2m Portable Antenna
• Heading out portable in Middleton-in-Teesdale
• Simple 20m Vertical Antenna With No Radials - DX Contacts on a Flat Band
• 6m Opening Up Again 👍🏻
• 6m is open for business!
• Simple Morse Paddle Build Completion & Test
• Making a Morse Paddle on International Morse Code Day!
• Military Morse Key Recommissioning
• Revisiting the Nuclear Bunker ☢️
• 2m FM Mobile - Enjoying Radio & Countryside
• Just me and the grouse…(70cm UKAC)
• 145 Alive - Running a Net in the Yorkshire Dales
• Kenwood Mobile TS-B2000 with Remote RC-2000 Head Full Portable & Mobile Test
• Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (UK Creators Mega-Stream Mashup)!
• Tuning & Testing HF Mobile Antennas
• Enhanced Amateur Radio Mobile Installation
• 15m Vertical Antenna Simple Build
• Mobile Transceiver Installation & DIY Antenna Mount
• Aurora while waiting for 6m UKAC
• Static Rain on 70cm
• Astronaut Q&A on the ISS
• New 2m Yagi Build & Test
• Loop on the Ground Repair
• New 2m Antenna Trial & Embarrassing Incident!
• Simple & Effective 2m Antenna - Build & Test
• RAF Fylingdales interference on 70cm
• The PL259 Curse - Fixed!
• Thailand DX - Vertical (Ant2) vs Dipole (Ant 1)
• VKs in Shack MkII
• Take #2 - 6m Portable Contest Attempt!
• 70cm Portable Contesting Preparation
• Shack Rebuild - Where do all the wires go 😱
• ISS pass…
• 145 Alive - Raring to go
• Height, Horizons & Distance - Why Does Height Matter?
• Ready for 6m
• A weekend of Amateur Radio outside the bunker.
• VK in the tent.
• 10 On 10m FM - Working 10m FM
• 10m 5/8ths Antenna Simple Build
• A Quiet Portable Location
• Game Changer! (LiFePO4 Battery Field Trials)
• More Battery Field Trials
• New Propagation Layer Discovered!
• 70cm Contesting - Ready for the Off 👍🏻
• Battery Upgrade to LiFePO4
• New Battery!
• Hmm….🤔
• ARRL DX Contest From The Nuclear Bunker!
• ARRL DX below ground
• Back to the bunker