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 ...