Tim G5TM

#hamradio I’m now on blue sky … come and follow me and I’ll do likewise. 73.

60 years today. Never forgotten.

Radio 4 Extra to close. A huge shame. I hope they allow all archived shows to be available on Sounds.

RSGB Convention on YouTube. Good that it’s being streamed. Shame it’s same old, same old but there we go…

Why is my timeline choc full of bloody U.S politics??

Are you local?

Thank god for Raynet…

Iota contest single op portable station. Shame my car’s battery decided to go empty first thing Sunday. Had to pack up to attend to it without any operating after 03:00. Still, a nice night!!

It’s 2026. You order a small item (3x15m paracord from Mountain Warehouse. Done Monday to click and collect from store 11 miles away. You’re told you will receive email saying it’s there for collection. It’s Friday. No email. MW say this will take 5 working days. Wonder why the high street is dying?

Great to meet up and have an eyeball with @m5jfs.bsky.social this morning! Chatted about satellites, teaching and stuff!

145 Alive and Facebook. Another well attended event. Yet even more people moaning about the lift on 2m that “ruined my day” as I heard 3 nets on one frequency. Others saying that the organisers must’ve been drunk to pick those frequencies. Absolute arse wipes. Who said amateurs are negative?

Looking forward to testing my new efhw arrival from N9SAB. A linked efhw.

Not too bad with 100w, mixture of little tarheel and Ampro hamsticks plus the shack / capacitive ground from the Ford Mondeo.

Cloud formation known as “The Swiss Tony”

Just watched a replay of the RSGB AGM from Saturday. The pre-submitted questions saw more “forward defensive strokes” in the replies than in the nets the day before a test match. The words eel and slippery spring to mind…

WPX raw scores are out. 21 hours in the car bellowing into a mic doing search and pounce.. the results..

All search and pounce using either a Tarheel HF screwdriver antenna or mono band hamsticks. 21 hours from the car across the weekend.

WPX 561 Q’s 395k points .. need sleep

In the car “mobile” for WPX. About 13 hrs so far this weekend all search and pounce. Another 8-9 hours tonight. MIGHT get near to 650-700 QSOs and around 350-400k points. We shall see.

En-route to testing a new mobile HF set up before the WPX contest this weekend.. Costa first though!!

Listen out for the boys at G2EC (Royal signals ARS) pulling out the stops to be a big signal in this weekend’s WPX SSB contest. Great bunch of chaps and I’m sure you’ll hear them on all contest bands 160-10 💥

Great to work @wgoodf.bsky.social a few days ago when out doing a POTA

I see that ready made mono-band (LC circuit) end fed half waves retail for about £50. Don’t see any sold in kits for about £30? Wonder if there’s a gap there? Simple to make and when the sunspot cycle tanks in 2-3 years it’ll all be about efficiency over convenience.

Merry Xmas one and all. See you back on here some time in 2026.

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Any full licence holders changed their call to another full call? If you didn’t already know, you can!

M8/M9 now available for intermediate licence holders…

Covid hits me for the second time. Bed bound and feeling very rough. Bit of a sweep of it at work by the looks of it.

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Nice to work 10,12 and 15m with the 133ft efhw portable. Great to hear the upper HF bands open. Moving away from doldrums into hopefully a fruitful autumn for HF.

Actor Ray Brooks, voice of Mr Benn, dies aged 86 www.bbc.com/news/article... Drat, another voice from my childhood goes..

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@noaacomms.noaa.gov Hi there I am the editor of an online journal for the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) called RadCom Basics and we are looking to use an image from one of your web pages. Can we confirm if this is possible and how to gain permission? Thank you.

Ah where would we be in this hobby without some shithousery on QRZ…

Superb to work @wgoodf.bsky.social on 40 last Friday evening. Much fun comparing an inverted v EFHW with a full sized quarter wave ground mounted vertical.

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In between putting the world to rights and generally having a laugh .. we did some radio too!

Chris G1VDP & Ady G6AD both hard at it for CQWW WPX…

So far in WPX SSB… 2 hours sleep… a nice 2-6am stint on 40 and 80 and good fun!

Four square for 40/15m with three elevated radials for each. At G2EC for WPX SSB.

Listen out for G2EC in this weekend’s WPX SSB Contest. Happy to be part of the 4 man team and stocking up on the Pro Plus!

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Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection