G7NIB

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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22/09/2025

20,17,15,12,10 have all been in great shape over the weekend ..

05/09/2025

Progress, from this mornings bomb site, still work to complete, clean, re jig, re wire, chuck away, make room.. New mixer, mic into mixer, mixer out, to 8 band eq, into radio with push button PTT ( push to talk) New amp Acom 1010, mic stand with boom arm

05/09/2025

I`ll take that... RSGB (Radio Society Great Brittan) IOTA ( Islands on the air ) contest 2025 .. I came 28th in my category, 66th in the world ... MINT 👌

21/08/2025

2 years nearly to the day, since our last contact, thoughts to family and friends

Sad news to report that Odinn, TF2MSN has become a S.K.

We're sure many ops / DXers have him in the log over the years.

https://www.qrz.com/db/TF2MSN

20/08/2025

The thing with radio is, always band conditions, propagation, Sometimes its heading Asia way, tonight it`s North and South America, which means sometimes you can go months or years without speaking, which makes it good to catch up, Sad when you here of a Death or SK (silent key) as we say in radio, it`s been 3 years since I last spoke with Bob (K8NY), in West Virginia, USA .. Compliments on my 100w and vertical again, Quote "In fact Ian, that`s a dam good job your doing" Nice catch up

11/08/2025

Running meteor scatter (msk144) on 6 meters, on the Icom radio, and main Computer, and 2 meters on the laptop and Kenwood 847 radio

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…

06/08/2025

Its been years maybe 10+, since I used HRD software for the radio, at the time it stood out, clean, simple, contained all you need in one package, I thought I would purchase it again.. Not a Fan, in fact I would go as far as... a waste of money ..Its now over complicated and to much in one package, also very difficult to navigate ..there are far superior single packages available for free .. for instance WSJTX and Gridtracker combined, provide a great software for data and log interaction for data modes, N1mm logger provides a great logger, for general use and contesting .. QRZ itself provides all I need log wise, and updates LOTW and Clublog for me and vice averse, SSTV is a great package for that mode, MMTY for all things RTTY .. Rig control wise Icom has its own very good Program... Disappointed very, just clad I had a 30% off code . PLEASE NOTE.. These are my personal views

05/08/2025

This looks interesting
https://app.worldradioleague.com/

05/08/2025

WOW after years of contesting RAW score, First in the UK, to think I nearly gave the radio up after a stroke, when in fact it has been one of the best therapy's