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Last weekend was IARU Region 1 National Field Day and just like any other year the Oxford & District Amateur Radio Society, was taking part from the usual location at Worminghall, which is on the boundary of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Setup began on Friday afternoon once all antennas, tents etc were on site, and luckily the [...]

I’ve literally just got home after leaving Dartford at 1pm, and it’s now 6pm we got struck by lots of engineering works in London and also between Didcot Park Way and Oxford. But you’ve not come to hear about my ramblings about the UK transport system.
Day 1:
We started the contest around 6am Saturday morning due [...]

I only had a quick go in the UBA DX Contest on 40m SSB while I setup the FT-950 on SSB hence the lack of QSOs, totally operating hours was 27 minutes! 13 QSOs and a total score of 186, I sure hope I can improve on this next year!
Did have a bit of fun [...]

This weekend was BARTG Sprint RTTY, every year I try to take part in this contest and this year was no exception although there was a slight delay due to the fact that we picked up the new Yaesu FT-950 radio during Saturday.
By the time we had the radio setup and I configured the new [...]