My silly evening project last week turned out well! ❤️ Super cheap, ready assembled touch key for the KX2 and KX3. Needs a bit of refining, but the first spin works well! #elecraft #kx2 #kx3 #cw #portable #sota #pota #qrp

Good FT8 reception today on 12m. Mostly with WSJT-X Improved V3.0, but also partly with MSHV 2.76.4 and standard WSJT-X 2.7. The antenna is a TF2D, Diamond WD330S, and the receiver is the FTdx10. Just because i can... 😆

Am I the only Windows and Linux user who sees huge differences in the number of FT8 decodes in Linux (LMDE) compared to Windows 11? Same PC, same set, same settings, and in a full waterfall, Linux decodes between 7 and 10 per pass, Windows between 35 and over 40... #ft8

The nights are getting shorter, summer is in sight...

Here's the latest status for the amateur radios on the ISS. The RS-38S SSTV event continues until Saturday.

HF DX band conditions and 24h forecast powered by AI, updated every 10 minutes, always on https://grafana.gafner.net/goto/xBW9YOWDg?orgId=1 #hamradio #HFPropagation

Time to waste some time receiving HFDL messages. It's always fun to keep up a bit. Using MultiPSK for it with the FTdx10.

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have been to: Eric Clapton Black Slate Jeff Healy Big Country Santana

ARISS is excited to premier a new video all about Amateur Radio on the International Space Station! Thanks to Nichole Ayers who recorded this during her time on the International Space Station Join us Tuesday 02-December on YouTube.com/ARISSlive for the big reveal!

Connected a BME280 sensor to the #Meshcore transceiver Heltec V4. SDA goes to GPIO 17 SCL goes to GPIO 18 Vcc = 3.3v Needs some calibration 😄 #hamradio #hamr #AmateurRadio #868MHz #prepping #Weather #temperature #pressure #humidity

24-hour FT8 reception on 80 meters. I don't think it's bad at all; the antenna used is a Diamond WD330S T2FD antenna. Ultimately, it uses no more than 2 x 10.5 meters of wire in a folded dipole, resulting in a span of less than 10 meters with a dummy load terminating resistor.

Pirate radio Elbows up www.youtube.com/live/uZPaQUC...

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction” The SpaceX-built spy satellites are helping the NRO greatly expand its satellite surveillance capabilities

Tonight, Dwingeloo radio telescope will be featured in the musical piece "Le noir de l'étoile," which will be performed in Freiburg. We will transmit the ticking of pulsar B0329+54 live to the concert hall, where six percussionists will take over the pulsar's rhythm.

Short travel video from my trip to the #rsgb #convention and #bletchley #park earlier in October www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U9M...

The better half has been lounging on the couch for about two days now, watching nothing but crime shows on the BBC. Given the number of murders in the series, you'd think there would be about 16,384 murder cases a day across the Channel. Where else do they get their inspiration? 😎

Last year I was asked to pull an old radio out of a loft near here. Turned out to be a HRO from WW2. It had a rusted away lethal power supply and a wooden speaker full of wood worm. I spent the morning building a PSU/Speaker for it from junk. Switched it on and it works after a fashion.

Expect quite geomagnetic condx for CQWWSSB. Looking good for DX on higher bands grafana.gafner.net/goto/hhxK1pg... is.gd/5WLoHJ #hamradio #cqwwssb #hfpropagation #spacewx #spaceweather

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Combining 2 hobbies again today... 3Dprinting an enclosure for a NanoVNA. #3dprinting #ender3pro #nanovna

It seems like they're just winging it... 🤓

Weekend 6 from the 9 planned this year. On a camping site where a lot of friends are joining us over the weeks to make some music every Saturday. Time flies...

If you are a satellite operator and have not filed an objection against AST SpaceMobile's request to use 70cm, it's time to get busy. There's still time. Don't just sit waiting for other organisations to do it on your behalf. amsat-uk.org/2025/06/26/u...

We can enjoy SSTV images from the ISS for a while now. My first image from this series has arrived. 🙂

Big news! I've launched the official landing page for Zenith Satellite Tracker. You can now explore its capabilities directly on the web, even without dedicated hardware support. Check it out: zenithtracker.org

Can anyone help my ID the signal type & possibly ID of something that I received last night on approximately 6941 khz at 0308 UT. popshopradio.ca/20250701_030... It continued in this mode until 0512. UT. I looked in signal wiki to see if I could determine what it was but couldn't find it exactly.

Another holiday. Every time a struggle... We have been on the road in France for 4 days now. Tonight we are at a beautiful spot on the Loire in Sainte-Gemmes-sur-Loire. It is now 32C, tonight something like 20C. So it will be nice here near the river.

Since Windows 10 support will be a thing of the past in a few months and no suitable PC for Windows 11 here I treated myself to an Acemagic Mini PC. Specs are roughly 3x better than the current PC in the shack. And the power consumption is something like 5x lower... 🤗 acemagic.eu/products/am0...

QRM art. PWM motor control of washing machine centrifuge. #QRMArt #hamradio #SDR #EMC

Is it possible for a foreign (eg English) holder of a HAREC licence to apply for a Portuguese/ Azores callsign? Struggling with the ANACOM website

Been working on the "Smurf" last few weekends as we had to do some small modifications. Decided to do that after we had been touring France oktober last year. Shelves in the kitchen base are now extendable because we always had to get on our knees if we wanted something that was a bit further back

Bracknell Amateur Radio Club will be joining the celebrations at the Farley Wood Community Center VE80 Celebrations this Sunday 4th May. The club will be operating a Special Event Station with the callsign GB6VE. Come along and join the celebrations Sunday 4th May, 12pm to 5pm.

🔺Number station activity (for interest) For #SpectrumSunday this week we have a Russian M12 CW Number Station with a traffic sked, from the evening 12 April 2025.

My crystal ball tells me that the radio hobby will become more expensive for a particular country by around 24% (Japan) to 36% (China)...

Projekt SatAirBox nimmt langsam Formen an. Jetzt dürfen die einzelnen Raspberrys und Co. langsam einziehen. Morgen um diese Zeit wird es eng dort drin... hamradio #amateurfunk #ADSB #Leo #Satellite #Weater #NOAA

A lot of fuss on 10 meters today... A few hours of reading FT8... 92 countries in about 6 hours.

Homemade LoRa-Satelliten Antenne. #3Dprintig #LoRa #TinyGS

Things don't always go well. The first tests with RX antenna switching with recycled materials have not been very good below 5 Mhz. The power supply was not very good. We will continue working, fun is guaranteed. #hamradio #hamr #radioaficionados #radioescucha #swl

Anybody interested in another Live-Stream about the TH-79E display shenanigans? -> Like I think I have exhausted the audience, as I am not doing anything else since 6month.😆 Currently fiddling with the SW before going to PCB design. Adding the missing Minus-Minus shift icons. #hamradio #Amateurfunk

40 meters, 7.100 LSB a continuous audio loop with someone, fantasizing intensely, wanting something from a famous figure. Think this is coming from France, very strong there on a WebSDR. Also audible on the other side of the big pond...

Continuing with updating my old amateur radio tools this week it's whatsmylocator.co.uk it will soon use the device GPS or you can type your address to get your gridsquare. Should be live towards the end of the week

So, have I missed anything in the last few days that I should know about?

For those in Western Europe, check out the Western sky right now! There's some green cloud display happening. This is a video of the last 30 mins (19:30 to 20:00UTC). It's unclear to me if these are Northern Lights or some freak Noctilucent Clouds.

Winlink Express, VarAC, and VARA Modem on a Raspberry Pi 5 dl1gkk.com/winlink-expr... #hamradio #radioamateur