As you will have hopefully seen I have so far published 2 posts in regards to my project of receiving QO-100 (Es’Hail 2). The First being the Building the MiniTiouner V2 from the BATC. The second being Receiving QO-100. These have both been part of my QO-100 RX & MiniTiouner Project. Since these posts I…
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ADS-B Tracking Aircraft at Home (Part 1)
With an interest radio and also in aircraft I soon found out that it was possible to receive the ADS-B signals from the aircraft and to plot them on a map. Equipment Getting started in ADS-B reception is very simple. All you need is a simple RTL Dongle and an antenna. The RTL dongle can…
Receiving QO-100 (Es’Hail 2)
As you will of read in my previous post, Building the MiniTiouner V2. The reason behind building this was to enable me to receive QO-100 ‘s Wide Band transponder for DATV. After finishing the Build of the MiniTiouner. The following day I put together a rather messy, temporary, setup so I could connect the MiniTiouner…
Building the MiniTiouner V2
Yesterday I finally go round to building the MiniTiouner V2. I order the parts to build this a few weeks ago with the plan to experiment with the receiving of QO-100 (aka Es’Hail 2). Background / Reasons for Building By using the MiniTiouner this would allow me to: A) receive and decode the low symbol…
ISS SSTV 10th Feb 2019
A Days worth of recieving ISS SSTV transmissions. Signals were as good as the 9th for the final day of this round of ISS SSTV images.
ISS SSTV 9th Feb 2019
Friday 8th February was the start of another round of ISS SSTV transmissions. If you want to be able to receive these SSTV images from the ISS then tune to 145.800 +/- Doppler. For more help see my page on Working Amateur Satellites. After having trouble receiving the images on the Friday I was glad…
RSGB FMAC Contest
Tuesday 8th January I turned on the radio to see if I could make any contacts as part of the RSGB FMAC 70cm contest. I decided I would do this as a try out to see if I enjoyed contesting. That band wasn’t that busy from my location but as I was only using a…
Switched Attenuator
A Simple Switched Attenuator that I made for a Radio Fox Hunt. Being my first attempt at building something it wasn’t the best but worked.
I now have a Full Licence
As some of you may know, on Saturday the 24th of November I passed my Advanced licence exam at the Lincoln Shortwave Club. Meaning I could now apply for my Full Licence. Once it went live on the Ofcom website I tried using the online service to claim my new call sign. Unfortunately nearly all…
Mouldridge Lead Mine Visit 11/08/18
Location Back in August 2018 me and two friends decided we would like to explore some of the old mines that are around the country. One of us had done this numerous times before and so would be our guide to how things should be done. Some research was done to find a mine which…