Envi-Ham Application Accepted

After reading about the Envi-Ham Project in The Group for Earth Observation Journal and plenty of emails about it on weather satellite newsgroups I decided to send the ESA an email and ask about joining the project myself, this turned out to be a very simple...

Won a 100 Free QSL Cards from FDS QSL

A few weeks back filled in the form on FDS QSL’s website to enter there free draw to win some QSL cards and quickly forgot about it, that was in till I received an email from Geoff saying I’d won a 100 and to my surprise I could have a custom design so I...

ICOM IC-910X added to the shack

During the first weekend of this month I took a trip to Cambridge to visit M1BXF but also pickup a second hand fully loaded ICOM IC-910X which I’m now using for satellite work and also general VHF/UHF QSOs, so far the experience with it has been fantastic and...

February Satellite Review

I’m pleased to report that I’ve really been enjoying the new satellite antenna system and its been working flawlessly, I’ve still been hanging out on the FM Birds (AO-27,SO-50,AO-51) but enjoying it the beams and automated tracking makes life a lot...