Ham Radio Operator - M0YKS

Click on image to ENLARGE Once again NOOA 15 gives a good look at what is happening around 17.50 utc I have not been so active on the HF bands as I have been busy fabricating a tow hitch/bar for my Vehicle.This is not a problem as I am a fully qualified Welding and Fabrication Engineer, so I was what we say? Playing! I made two attachments one is a straight forward tow ball bracket and the other will allow the mounting of a 6BTV from Hustler.The new home brew Tow bracket will shortly be put to the test as I am picking up a new toy which is a Kawasaki 750 spectre US import this thursday on the motorcycle trailor I am borrowing. The Antenna mount will get tested when I set up Portable Station in about a month at the annual Keighley Show. There I will errect the Six Band Trapped Vertical( Hustler 6BTV) and fix it to my Vehicle using the homebrew Bracket/Mast so expect to here more about the Keighley Show nearer the time. As far as the new edition to my Motor Cycle Collection I am looki

Click on Image to ENLARGE Hi Folks :-) I am happy to be able to say that we have been able to enjoy a rain free weekend with nice sunny intervals here at the QTH. Thankfully this has changed our moods too Happy, after a Terribly wet couple of months and I am pleased to say that after the bad weather all is well up on the Moor Tops of West Yorkshire. Over the weekend Ive been listening on the bands, it hasn't been great but has had occasional DX openings especially on 20M with the odd strong Signals been heard from Indonesia and other DX countries. I have been quite busy listening out for Weather satellites around 137.300mhz, 137.400mhz, 137.500mhz, 137.620mhz, 137.850mhz, & 137.912.5mhz. I have had some good results as we had some clear Sky's allowing better images of the different Countries of Europe possible. As you can see from the above image of tonights pass over my QTH I managed to receive signals on 137.500 mhz that were coming from NOAA 15. NOAA 15 is just One of

This is an Image I received tonight on my Yaesu FT857 from NOAA 15 You cant always trust what the TV weather presenters say! So my advice is to do your own Weather monitoring with a little help from the NOAA weather satellites. It has been Sunny and warm today for the first time since I returned from my holiday in Ibiza, but looking at the above image I best keep my water proofs at close hand. The Video below shows how I received this Image and also includes a special appearance from Dudley the wanna be Radio Ham Greyhound. 73, thanks for visiting, take care and please come back soon! Simon

Click on Images to Enlarge My home QTH is out on the Moor Tops in the County of Yorkshire, You may have seen on the World News channels that we have been getting a months rainfall every day for the last few weeks. I am fortunate to be high enough at 1000ft ASL to avoid any flooding! however the lightning has been striking very close to my antennas and I have to wear waterproof s and wellington boots an awful lot hi hi. Looking North Looking South East toward Europe Looking South West Towards South America & The Carribean Looking West Toward North America

I have plenty of places left to get my signals to go too! The Map is just a guide of where I have made it to so far. A more detailed Map breaking down the individual Countries hopefully in a future post.

I was watching some youtube videos when I came across some fellow Hams with the coolist mobile station I have ever seen. Good film fellows! I liked it so much I decided to share. Enjoy! 73 Simon...

Well as you can see it was lovely! I would like to praise all the people of Ibiza as we were very well looked after and had a great time. : ) I hope to return someday soon thankyou gracious! Anyway I feel fully recharged and after having a week off Air I shall be listening around the bands to see whats happening out there? 73

Its The New version of what I have been using to decode Weather Satellites and all the other Digi Modes. There is a Demo version available if you paste this link into google. :) www bonito net It looks good, I havent downloaded it yet as i am still playing around with Bonito Radcom 5.2. 73 have fun!

Anyone Lucky enough to make QSO with Japan may find this useful English --- [ Japanese ] ------------------------------------------- Hello [Kon ni chi wa] Good Morning [O ha yo u go za i ma su] Good afternoon [Kon ni chi wa] Good evening [Kon ban wa] ------------------------------------------- Thank you for your Call (Thank you [a ri ga to u] ) Your signal is 59 [ si gu na lu wa] five nine [de su] (signal report) this word is frequently used in japanese [ si gu na lu re po to wa] five nine [ de su] ------------------------------------------- 2E0HTS this is JN4VWH over. 2E0HTS [ko chi ra wa] JN4VWH [do zo]. ------------------------------------------- Back to you [O ka e si --- si ma su] Over [do zo] (Back to you over / [O ka e si --- si ma su] [do zo]) ------------------------------------------- 2E0HTS from JN4VWH 73 good-bye over. 2E0HTS [ko chi ra wa] JN4VWH [Seventy three] [sa yo u na ra do zo]. ------------------------------------------- Roger = receive = understand [ryo u ka i] Rog

Here are some of my more colourful and interesting eQSL cards that I have received. Maybe there is one from You! Thanks to all Stations and SWLs that have sent eQSL cards to Me.......... You can watch the show whilst listening to MM0LSB/portable have a chat with Myself, I hope you enjoy and thanks for visiting this blog 73.....Simon

please click on log to enlarge As you can see I have been playing PSK with 3 new countries worked and added to my ever growing DX countries list which is currently at 124 different Countries Worked in the last three years of the programme winlog 32 log that I am currently running. New DX added are FG5LA from Guadeloupe, TG9AHM from Guatemala and J69DS from St. Lucia. I have dis-connected my Rigblaster Nomic Interface from the FT-847, and I swapped the jumper setting around to work in the good old FT-767 gx. The FT-767 gx is My original Rig and I have decided that it would make more sense to have it permanently wired up for digi and data mode use, as the good old switches and buttons can be adjusted much more easily than the more modern menu driven rigs. This is much easier for audio input adjustment/fine tune. I have been running 30Watts into the home brew 20M dipole with terrific results, I can also operate through my already connected Maldol multi band vertical which covers 40M 15M 1

Update on where to find the software My YL came across this software via the net: put PocketDigi into google and it will take you to the site where We downloaded it from. It seems to be working fine and I have been playing around with it for a few days without any problems. Infact I am extremely Impressed!!!!!

The WX is strange but the Bands are even stranger. Here are my recent logged QSOs, as you can see I have worked short and long skip on 20M, 17M, 12M and 10M. click on log to enlarge

Wow that was what the YL and myself both said earlier today as we walked down on the Glen. The usual trickle of the stream had turned into a white water torrent, in fact it was rather frightening so we observed with caution. It is what we say here in Yorkshire as "sods law" as we are both on holiday and had intended a camping expedition with a bit of portable operation. So we both decided that a day indoors playing radio would be the best thing to do on this wet and windy wild day. On returning to the home QTH i saw my motor cycle looking wet and exposed as the waterproof cover had blown off and was at the other end of the garden. I inspected the Antennas they were all in good shape so it was time to try for some QSOs, it was just at that moment that my mast that supports the 20M dipole and home brew collinear was blowing about as if it were a mobile Antenna, nether the less it was holding up with the other verticals. Unfortunately my G5RV was getting a good battering from th