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52 Week Ham Radio Challenge Roundup: Weeks 41-44

Written on Thursday 30 Oct 2025

If you’ve read the first post in this series or are playing along yourself, you’ll be aware of the 52 Week Ham Radio Challenge. If not, hit up that link for the details! This post covers the challenges from weeks 41-44, which were: Write a poem on your biggest ham...

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The "Parks I Don't Wanna Do" Tour 2025

Written on Sunday 26 Oct 2025

Once upon a time, I slogged through salt marsh on an epic eight-park rove, purely to settle my completionist tendencies, and produce a cathartic New Parks map showing all the parks in my local area in green. But back in late summer, the POTA powers-that-be decided to recognise a few...

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Jamboree on the Air 2025

Written on Monday 20 Oct 2025

Once again, the third weekend in October saw me helping to run a Jamboree on the Air station with a number of local Scout and Explorer troops. This time we were operating under the callsign GB2BMH. I provided the portable HF station, set up in the field as before. This...

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My First Overseas Activation: Der Bremer Bürgerpark

Written on Friday 10 Oct 2025

I’ve been routinely packing portable radio kit on business trips for a year or so now, just in case I get the chance to play, and this week I got lucky with a few hours to pass in Bremen before a flight home. I couldn’t resist the calling of my...

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52 Week Ham Radio Challenge Roundup: Weeks 37-40

Written on Sunday 5 Oct 2025

If you’ve read the first post in this series or are playing along yourself, you’ll be aware of the 52 Week Ham Radio Challenge. If not, hit up that link for the details! This post covers the challenges from weeks 37-40, which were: Work 10 DXCCs on FT8 Make a...

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Rationale for a Ham Radio Meta-Spotter

Written on Thursday 25 Sep 2025

I’ve been thinking on-and-off for a few months now about extracting the back-end of Field Spotter into its own, separate thing—a sort of meta-cluster of portable ham radio spots. This post is a bit of an attempt to get my thoughts in order—most importantly, should I bother? Rationale Field Spotter...

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The RSGB LoRa Balloon Challenge 2025

Written on Saturday 20 Sep 2025

Today was the day of the RSGB LoRa Balloon Challenge, one of their activities for National Coding Week. The main part of the challenge was in advance; getting a 433MHz LoRa board set up to send APRS packets following these instructions. I appreciate the amount of effort that went into...

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Migrating from GitHub to Forgejo

Written on Friday 5 Sep 2025

It’s autumn 2025, the USA is on a live-streamed any% speedrun into techno-fascist dystopia, and giant tech companies are cooking the biosphere to cram a few more crumbs of unwanted LLM shite down our throats. It’s a good time to part ways with another US tech megacorp service that I’m...

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52 Week Ham Radio Challenge Roundup: Weeks 33-36

Written on Monday 25 Aug 2025

If you’ve read the first post in this series or are playing along yourself, you’ll be aware of the 52 Week Ham Radio Challenge. If not, hit up that link for the details! This post covers the challenges from weeks 33-36, which were: Build an antenna and make a contact...

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433 Alive & POTA: Ibberton and Okeford Hills

Written on Sunday 24 Aug 2025

All my POTA activations so far have a common theme—all voice, all entirely or mostly HF. For a while I’ve wanted to push the boundaries more, and with a “433 Alive” event today, I wondered: could I do a POTA activation, only on UHF? Positioning is everything, so I picked...

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