I am giving a presentation at a library tomorrow at 1030am - I have an almost blank powerpoint and I'm scrolling social media and watching music videos on youtube *sigh*

Thursday is bug night and the old J36 gets a run out ... #CWFE

oh look it's clear for the first time in ages....

Anyone else?

What an absolutely splendid January we're having

Cracking trip round the 3 Exmoor summits today. Sunshine, winter bonus points and hardly anyone about. #SOTA #CW

70cms UKAC! January is portable month 🙃

70cms UKAC! January is portable month 🙃

On the stereo tonight for obvs reasons - I woz there #bowie

My non-contest HF ramblings this year - will be back for FOC bug day tomorrow. HNY folks...

Nothing says Xmas like an rsgb uhf contest.

I am a pile up jedi 😇 KH7XS 40CW nw

Xmas ruined

My QLF coming to a band near you soon...

VU7 etc is hard from the east coast

All CW ragchews

10m RBN hits at 1720z - I refuse to give up on cycle 25 yet :) #CWFE

Processed a bit

Nice and clear last night - out for a public outreach thing with www.cranbornechaseastro.club had the big dob and the seestar - was very dewy. Showed a bunch of kids Saturn and Jupiter tho so that was cool

CW nets? Maybe it'll catch on... #CWFE

Had 36 at the Flight Refuelling ARS Xmas dinner last night. Members & some partners. End the year with 57 members. with a few joining since Hamfest in Aug. We're not the biggest club in the country but we do a lot of stuff and have some cool people and facilities - onwards #hamr

GE

Cos play contesting if any US need a point

New 70cms club beam for portable #solid from dx shop

Only took me 7 hours to get home from Newport today as the old Severn bridge was shut and the new on was down to 1 lane due to "faulty lighting columns are currently at risk of collapse". I am in an EXTREMELY GOOD MOOD www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the kids from my LICW class has now got his licence and is QRV with a G90 and a vertical from Macerata. Pround of the lad - please give Ric, IU6VMR, a call if you hear him.

Now have in-car rotating for the ukac #luxury @m5jfs.bsky.social

Hoped for 100 dxcc and about 1000 qso. Condx good on 15 but not amazing

On 21056 with pointy elbows for US sunrise ... Let's see how long i survive #cqwwcw

unrefinied galaxies on a clear night -... early part of a clear night

Suggestion for excuses not to drive 3 hours to spend a night in a travelodge and attend a work xmas do that I really don't want to go to? War declared in Dorset? Last minute tsunami warning? abducted by aliens?

CQ POTA! Wow!

Changeable out...

Live demise(?) of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)

Few more cards from Japan today. Usual themes: amps, antennas & anime 😃

Triangulum galaxy - prolly up for the break up of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) later and the cricket

Double cluster. Nice and clear tonight.

After an archeolgolical dig into club store rooms we are in good shape for spinning VHF arrays....

And some more African QSLs from the olden days...

Yes! And I have a qsl card somewhere.. this is from XT, same group and a recent 9U

Thought I might get a match for 9U1RU but where did that come from ?!?

But "the bands are dead!" When someone says that to me I always ask if they called CQ, and the answer is always "NO".

call cq yeah?

Calling cq on 12m cw and got a pile up 🤷‍♂️

uh oh - *entire amateur radio world stops...

"Watch to the end" as they say...

HOLY SHIT!!!!!! A 3rd X-class flare for the 3rd day in a row, ONGOING!!! ⚡⚡⚡ And it's the strongest one: X5.29, by GOES-19 😱😱😱 Note: CMEs from the past 2 days' X-flares are arriving as we speak. Proton flux has already skyrocketed yesterday. Bye bye #MWDX, good luck to all on HF... #spaceweather

Glorious up on Pen Y Fan (GW/SW-001) today - just a quick activation on 2m. SOTAdog got bored!

Had a bit of rain have ya?