Real-World Amateur Radio

Over the past month or so, I've been transitioning away from a rubbish terrestrial microwave broadband link to one supplied by a differe...

Regular readers will know of my general disgruntlement with the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB).  Top of my moan list was that the RSG...

A mate of mine bought a new Elad SDR receiver the other day.  Lucky him!  I'm not much into simply listening, but that's not to say ...

Having long passed the phase of the hobby where competition either with others or myself is of any importance, interest in DX is now a much ...

I've recently been trying to manually progam the superb Baofeng UV-5RC in channel mode, which is not intuitive!  This came about because...

Well, some years ago, I built my own stick-and-wire quads for 2m and 70cm, and to my absolute amazement, found it easy to work the SO-50 FM ...

Well, the Cornwall debacle between the RSGB and OFCOM was the straw that broke the camel's back. Having never found the RSGB represent...