Blog Archive — Page 4

POTA Activation Report: Up Blandford Way

Written on Tuesday 16 Dec 2025

The nights are drawing in now, on the run-down to the solstice. The wind is getting cold, the ground is muddy underfoot, and it’s time to think of indoor activities to while away the short winter days. Oh, sod it, no it’s not. Time for a five-park rove. Four parks...

Read more »
Unifi Dream Router Setup on Vodafone/CityFibre

Written on Friday 5 Dec 2025

Our home internet connection is provided by Vodafone, via the CityFibre FTTP network. We have an ONT in the wall, then had an Ethernet connection to the free Vodafone-provided router, which provided WiFi and LAN to the rest of the house. I’ve recently replaced that flaky router with a Unifi...

Read more »
52 Week Ham Radio Challenge Roundup: Weeks 45-48

Written on Sunday 30 Nov 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 45-48, which were: Fix something that is broken. Write a...

Read more »
The QRP Kit Gets Smaller

Written on Saturday 22 Nov 2025

In 2024, my first year of portable radio operating, my kit stayed pretty constant. The Yaesu FT-891 in a hard case, the Eco-Worthy 20Ah battery wrapped in bubble-wrap, SOTABeams antenna and pole, and a picnic blanket, all shoved into my work bag. The JPC-12 antenna I purchased in September allowed...

Read more »
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...

Read more »
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...

Read more »
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...

Read more »
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...

Read more »
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...

Read more »
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...

Read more »

← Older Posts

Newer Posts →