Yes @gozwift.bsky.social My car has Tron mode. What about Zwift? #tron

2 meter band nets. What happened to the art of conversation? Instead it’s a-meter readings, audio judgements and illness updates #hamradio

Ha!! #hamradio

I can’t believe that tonight will be the last ever edition of the Tour de France highlights on @itvx.com. Another crown jewel of global sport lost to terrestrial TV. Thank you Gary Imlach and team for a wonderful show. Summers will not be the same again

An HF contesting weekend again and therefore more bike time available. The TdFFaZ event was very enjoyable. Thanks @gozwift.bsky.social #cycling

Every now and then, a new technology allows a new economic system to develop. We are living in one of these moments, this is a critically important change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYM...

My first use of a DX Commander Expedition out on a POTA DX Commander Expedition fist time use - POTA Activation youtu.be/_r_Hifhk3nQ #hamradio #radio

Freaking Starlink Is down globally. Since when did we think ‘F****! I can’t ride my bike as Zwift will be down? Red pill required. #starlink #cycling

‘CQ POTA…’. It’s all happening the Parks on the Air super location the National Memorial Arboretum. #HamRadio #radio #pota #NMA

Thought for the day. People selling SLR cameras on eBay take the worst photos of the cameras that they are selling. How come? #photography

POTA. It’s getting g out of hand here in the UK. The dogging sites are bad enough and now towpaths and even worse, ways. Eg. The Staffordshire Way. It’s a line on a map that probably means 50% of licensed amateurs in Staffs could claim it constantly. #hamradio #pota

The green jersey on Zwift today. The legs are good and inspired listening the to the latest @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social KM0 episode. It’s superb and ep. 2 should be easily as good. #cycling #TdF #zwift

Working @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social I interviewed Philip Lymbery about the failings of British factory farming and how we can put things right to achieve a nature-friendly future. @philip-ciwf.bsky.social @ciwf.org.uk Link to interview: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Cycling fans & insiders. What is the news on the street regarding the new bike sponsor for Ineos? #cycling #tdf2025

When @cilliankelly.bsky.social met @friebos.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

If you are following #TdF2025 get the perfect daily podcast from @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social with @grahamwillgoss.bsky.social and @lionelbirnie.bsky.social as they follow the race on the ground.

At last!! Phew! We have DX Condx. Enjoy the radio everyone. 73 de G0OES #hamradio

My positive V centre-fed dipole using a 7ft Firestik antenna. A thought experiment with ChatGPT came up with this arrangement. It’s a ‘Band Buster’ at the moment. #hamradio #POTA

I am reading a Bill Bryson book about a trip to Australia. It made me think. Other than the usual danger of dogging sites, activating a Parks on the Air in Great Britain, we have none of the dangers of an Australian POTA. How do they overcome most things trying to eat or kill them? #hamradio

These new DT Swiss wheels on @gozwift.bsky.social are well worth an upgrade. So digitally fast! #cycling #zwift #fitness

Only amateur radio can have EMF safety standards and has antenna kits with radials and guy ropes so camouflaged that they will harm more people than any EMF will! #hamradio #radioamateur

Topical. Oasis live!! However, it’s a Parks-on-the-Air thing. It’s where I do my playing about with antennae #hamradio

Sprinters’ jersey. Yay!! Zwift - a hybrid of cycling and amateur radio’s FT8. It has it all. #hamradio #cycling #zwift

The new Yaesu Frazzle. No wonder that they are only sending them to tame reviewers. Come on Yaesu, you can do much better than this! #radio #hamradio #yaesu

Recently I spoke at an event in Lille with an eminent French novelist. Asked to define the essence of Britishness, she remembered a survivor of the 7/7 bombings who, when asked on camera how he was feeling, had replied: 'Well, I've had better days.' She thought this was a magnificent response.

#TheOutpost #HAMRadio Part of the fun of ham radio is making your own gear. Of course, when you make your own stuff, you tend to save some money as well. wb0isg.com/build-your-g...

I’m on a POTA. To use 40m I used a base loaded coil vertical. Even on 20m, it was struggling in band conditions. I remembered that my AliExpress positive V was in the boot of the spaceship. Sorted, shelling peas now. #hamradio

An idea for Icom - make a new IC-705, only drop anything over the 6m band and under the 40m band. Improve wide band FM and give us digital commercial radio. Drop the digital voice stuff as the Peanut app does it all and then get rid of the screen noise. #hamradio #icom

I followed a tractor today and it was swerving around potholes. Now you know how bad our roads are. #greatbritain

The USA is a fascinating place to look at from afar. They seem to arrest those that they ought not arrest and leave those who ought to be arrested. Leader of the free world seems like a slogan similar to World Series Sport That No Other Country Gives a Fig About.

Clarkson Pub - the largest episodes in the Amazon series. It’s evening that confirms that I no longer like pubs. For what reason do people drive miles to queue in a pub just like one that they will have nearby that’s also struggling and not backed by Amazon dollars?!!

QSL card created by ChatGPT for my POTA DX-pedition yesterday. 5 mins to create. #hamradio

@nationaltrust.org.uk As a fan of home working, I like to support it. However, trying to get IT help re membership and I’m told that the systems are down. However, your staff members was clearly driving!!

The Battle of Bosworth Field - POTA - only ever activated once before. A cracking take-off and QSOs on bands from 40m through to 6m. A great day. #hamradio #radioamateur

eQSL. I was recommended it. Oh dear - maybe it was good 30 years ago?! Nipping over into Wales add an extra letter and more admin that I don’t want. Who is using an eQSL programme that does the admin and enables self designed cards? #hamradio #radioamateur

One of the season’s biggest and best races is here 💥 Good luck to our seven wolves taking on the Critérium du Dauphiné 👊

17m is rocking this morning here in GB. It remains my favourite band #hamradio #radioamateur

Space Weather Aurora alert: Mid-latitude aurora is being reported by amateur radio operators down to ~58°N over Scandinavia. #spaceweather #aurora

Canyon under financial strain. What’s the story there. Of all brands, I’m surprised #cycling

Cycling is the most weird and wonderful sport, honestly in what other competitive endeavour can you almost get knocked over by a goat, pet a taxidermy fox, and meet the pontiff, within the same race 🤯🙏

40 and 30 metres today for a 5 am POTA operating as GW0OES/P. Even with low height Sigma long wire, loads of QSOs including access the Pond and VK land. Bass are improving #hamradio #amateurradio #pota

Just finished “Radical Uncertainty” by John Kay and Mervyn King, fascinating and brilliant explanation as to why risk and uncertainty are different things. Begs the question how much if this did MK have on board in 07-09?

Global chat with rare DX nations and getting fit sitting on the rollers on the bike. What’s there not to like - especially when the sprinters’ jersey of taken #zwift #cycling

More antenna DXing HF nuggets from my visit to see Callum at DX Commander. A short - Professor of Antennas - nuggets of distilled wisdom youtube.com/shorts/KKNmO... #hamradio #radio #radioamateur

WvA what a win. What a stage. What a Grand Tour!! Name a stage better than that @cilliankelly.bsky.social @friebos.bsky.social @thecyclingpodcast.bsky.social #giro #cycling

Mads Pedersen has won three stages in three different jerseys. Has this ever happened before at the Giro? The answers are but a mere click away. open.substack.com/pub/cilliank...

DX Commander HQ visit today. Absolutely superb and what an amazing team and Callum’s DXing set up is incredible!! #hamradio

Here is the thing. I ride on Zwift - staying fit & I’m online chatting to riders all over the world, in real time. I nip onto amateur radio and fellow hams are in a pile-up trying desperately to chat to people in the same places, but just with a signal report. How we’ve moved on. #zwift #hamradio