G5IAN

07/11/2025

I have for many years had an office\radio room, but have for a long time always wanted a more .. proper shack, Something that worked and everything at hand, some decent grounding etc etc .. final few bits arrived today .. Completed it mate.. Another one off the bucket list

01/11/2025

Nearly there now

01/11/2025

Shack\office re build day 4 .. Got no where fast today, started with another diabetic low.. although the complete new earth bonding, has all gone in, the cat 5 network and cctv cables, are all plumbed back in, all working, coax cables and rotator cable, coming in to the house, are now trunked down the wall, looks loads better, we now have the pcs working .. Some silly clown, forgot to label the 6 coax runs, and I have no idea, what cable is what antenna .. A job for 2moro, along with some loose cables, and bits and pieces, still to do

16/10/2025

Formally G7NIB .. I am now G5IAN

28/09/2025

"Recent activity with geomagnetic disturbances suggests that aurora should continue to be part of the operating list in the coming week"

Read this week's propagation report in full by visiting: rsgb.org/main/gb2rs/propagation-news/

27/09/2025

One of the things I love about radio is, when you come across Dx expeditions to remote places, I love learning\brain input and gaining knowledge of this round planet we live on, Only fairly local but not one I have come across, just spoke to Ian (MS0NYM ) on a DXpedition to Isle of Lewis, straight on google after our chat ..
I LOVE KNOWELEDGE
The Isle of Lewis is at the North west corner of the group of islands known as the Hebrides, or Western Isles.
The Hebrides are known as the "long islands" as they stretch for 100 miles. The other main islands in the Western Isles are the Isles of Harris North Uist Benbecula South Uist and Barra
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07/08/2025

Love it when 20m changes to local\short Skip Only, "Short skip" in radio refers to a specific type of shortwave radio propagation where signals are reflected off the ionosphere at relatively shallow angles, allowing for communication over shorter distances ... makes a pleasing change, than the whole of the world and his pet dog, nice to hear an All English pile up, doesn`t happen to often.. Just spoke to Paul (MI0ITS) in Derry, N. Ireland, and Adam (2M1ADM) in Linlithgow, Scotland, running just 50w, with Similar comments ..
"Ian your boooming in here 5 and 9 plus 30, with BBC Radio Quality audio" 👌 theres a good read on the following page if Interested

Forget about the D layer and the F layer and all that stuff for the moment. As far as we are concerned, the ionosphere is a kind of ceiling above the earth. We send out a radio signal and it hits t…