Ham Radio Operator - M0YKS

 My first week back at work has been busy which has limited my radio time but still I have made a couple of decent DX on 40m across to North America and also some decent into G. Today (Saturday) I was up nice and early working stations via SSB bird RS-44. The bird was almost an overhead pass coming in from the North heading south so I was in for a treat signal wise. I worked a number of stations and at one time had a small pile up via the Russian bird which has an awesome footprint which is great for DX. Check out the video to see how well the old FT-847 handled the pass. I spent some time after that down on 40M with my HF station and had a great QSO with Neil operating with GB2GM from the Marconi radio shack run by Poldhu Amateur Radio Club at The Marconi Centre Poldhu, Cornwall. I visited the site 20 years ago! So that's about it for now but just as I sign off for today I got one last opportunity to work some more VHF/UHF DX via space. ISS was approaching around bedtime with a...

The old saying springs to mind ''time flies when you're having fun" that's true for sure 😀. Hoping you are all onto a good start to the year so far. Just a quick thanks to you all for following and keeping up with things, from one of the first Ham radio blogs coming out from the UK. We've been posting 20 years and have had plenty of fun times since beginning back in 2006.  During the 20 years of Ham radio blog posts the actual number of posts totals 733. We've made lots of fantastic friends over the year's and we have had a total of 890 comments relating to Ham radio. Last month I had a total of 13015 visits to the various posts across Ham radio operator.blogspot.com The crazy bit, our all time total of world wide 🌍 visits hitting a massive 808129 visits to this blog. Thank you, that is amazing 😍  I know that some of you have been there from the beginning, many have been there a long long time but if it's your first time viewing this ...

I adjusted the Satellite antennas position as the storms and strong winds recently had moved them off by 10-15 degrees which I noticed mainly on the FM Sats and ISS. Hopefully I am back on target with an accurate aim once again. It seemed good when I tried it out on the FM bird SO-50 a few moments earlier., I made a contact with Robbie EI2IP and Alfredo EA5FNE. I will continue to experiment over the next few passes, so far so good!   

Some intresting software for satellite enthusiasts. SkyRoof and SatPC32

  What a fantastic weekend we had this time around for the 2025 CQWW. I really enjoyed the weekend and I spent all my time working tons of DX up on the 10 meter band.  I don't really fuss over contests but I do always where possible try to ensure that I partake in the CQWW SSB contest. This is the best contest of all in my opinion, I usually operate across all bands and normally work anywhere from 16 to 22 Zones.  Last year was very good propagation, I entered as a High power with 200W Single operator All Bands Station and came in 7th place Classic Op in England. This year I ran Low power 100W and worked as a Single operator on 10 Meter only. My over all Zone count went up by 2 extra as I managed to work 24 out of 40 Zones this time around on the one band. The conditions were very good especially Far East and Pacific areas. North and South America were also coming in well and I grabbed a couple of previously unworked Islands from the West Indies. The 10 Meter band was ope...

After being asked for my audio settings for the FTDX101MP (or FTDX101D) I thought I would share my settings here for you to view. These settings work well for me on all Phone modes - AM, SSB and FM. I have the M70 microphone 🎤. Hope it is useful for some of you guys with YAESU FTDX Radio