Ham Radio Operator - M0YKS

I have recently been in qso via the Internet with Cyril F4FUL Who Is located in the French Alps, locator square JN36EH. Cyril had recently built an IOIo Satellite antenna and was interested in building a antenna similar to the ARROW antenna He saw me using in one of last years videos. The tests showed that the Arrow does out perform the IOIo. I agreed signal reports and comparisons with Cyril, Who then said he was on his way in building one and would keep in touch. I was interested to see what Cyril - F4FUL would come up with? Here is the result: The F4FUL, Home Brew, Dual Band Arrow like Yagi. 4 elements VHF and 10 elements UHF. Thanks Cyril F4FUL, for your images. 73 Good DX! Thanks to Cyril's inspiration, I also came across some specs for a simple antenna build similar to the Arrow. I have almost completed one and have yet to add the feeder to complete the first attempt. I have built this "prototype" antenna from 2.5mm wire and a broom handlel I will post detailed i

Two Great Contacts worked from my Mobile HF Station - JO7CVU from N.JAPAN and 6Y/WE9V Portable from JAMAICA. My Location was close by to my Home QTH up at 1000ft on Baildon Moor, W.Yorkshire, N.ENGLAND The first QSO was JO7CVU worked on my way to work at 08.20 utc. The second QSO was 6Y/WE9V portable worked on my return journey at 17.00 utc. 73, Thanks for all radio contacts & thanks for watching!

This morning I was fortunate to hear some big signals coming through on my mobile work bound journey. I heard VK3MO from Austrailia with a 5/9 just as he was closing down. I then tuned up the band (20M) and came across Kentaro - JO7CVU from Sendai City, North Japan. Ken was coming through 5/8 and peaked at 5/9, I gave Ken a quick call from the mobile FT-857 and Maldol 20M antenna and too my great surprise Ken - JO7CVU came straight back to me and gave me a 5/6 report. I managed to sweet talk Louise M3TLL to video the contact with Ken, I should be uploading it this evening. This definately was a great copy from my mobile running 50watts in to North Japan, I will be listening out for early morning DX tomorrow.

 Last week and this week I decided to try and work some stations during Tuesday nights RSGB VHF Contest. The Contests are held weekly on Tuesday evenings and Cover five VHF Bands. I have operated on two of the five Contest bands 144MHZ and 433MHZ. Below is the table found at the RSGB Contest Committee Site explaining what band is used and the operating times of each Tuesday's evening Contest. Also the previous month - January's results can be seen via the Results links. Every 1st Tuesday 2000-2230 (Local) 144MHz UK Activity Contest and Club Championship AO   AR QTH Locators ( M2 ) , Activity contest ( S8 ) , Club Championship ( S9 ) Every 2nd Tuesday 2000-2230 (Local) 432MHz UKAC AO   AR QTH Locators ( M2 ) , Activity contest ( S8 ) , Club Championship ( S9 ) Every 3rd Tuesday 2000-2230 (Local) UHF UKAC AO   AR QTH Locators ( M2 ) , Activity contest ( S8 ) , Club Championship ( S9 ) Every 4th Tuesday 2000-2230 (Local) 50MHz UKAC AO   AR QTH Locators ( M2 ) , Activity contest

Since I sold my Toyota Rav 4 I haven't had the means of setting up the spare Hustler 6 BTV - Base Station Multi Banded HF Vertical. I used the tow bar fixing which I had made and had some excellent results with that one, not to mention the 14,411 YouTube Views on the Video I made using it. With the first Mast Mount Creating so much attention the pressure was on to come up with another Mast Mount strong enough to bear the Hustler's 6 Band Load in windy but typical Yorkshire conditions. I had seen some wheel bearing Mast Mounts on eBay , so I decided to make up my own version which worked out well. Materials used: 3mm Mild Steel Plate, Cut at 260mm wide X 550mm long. 25mm X 25mm X 3mm Angle Iron (L), Two pieces cut to a length of 550mm. 70mm X 70mm X 3mm plate square, Two pieces cut in half into a triangle to become gusset supports. 200mm diameter 3mm plate, cut plate into a half circle then drill 12, 6mm holes to be used as radial mounts. 38mm diameter mild steel bar, 600mm l

Last night before pulling the plug, I had a last radio contact to make which was with M0OGY - Dave in North Lincolnshire. I recently became friends with Dave - M0OGY, via the ever growing YouTube Community of "Hams" and "SWLs" that have some very interesting Amateur radio videos on YouTube. Dave and I recently worked each other for the first time last week on 2M SSB . Last nights QSO was worked on 80m a totally different band, which worked much better with bigger and louder signals sent and received. Dave's Shack looks impressive and can be seen in his video as he works with a Yaesu FT-1000 Delta, G5RV and 100 Watts. I used My Yaesu FT-767 GX, Heil GoldLine Mic, G5RV, and 50 Watts to make the contact with Dave. Tnx Dave. It is a useful tool to be able to use YouTube as a means of checking how your station is sounding at the other end of the QSO. I will slightly back down the ALC after hearing myself on Dave - M0OGY's Video. Watch Dave's YouTube Video o

It always amazes me where in the World you are all located! Thanks again for visiting Ham Radio.Operator.Blogspot.com and Planetham.org 73 Have a nice Sunday!

Early this morning I ended up working 145 FM portable from North Pennine summit on the air 028 whilst walking the dog. I used: My hand held radio Kenwood TH-7F and 5 watts into a Diamond SRH771 antenna. Despite been up and about early in the morning I still managed to work Kevin - M0XLT & Adrian M3IAO. Watch the video to see how I avoided the MUD bath up on The Rombalds Moor SOTA.

Some Nice DX In the Log!

Thanks to fellow ham and friend Edmundo - EA1GHW, I am able to show you another great home brew satellite antenna system. ED, EA1GHW from Spain has been working satellites a lot longer than myself and has had some great results with his home brew antenna systems and a couple of hand held rigs. I first saw ED in action via his YouTube video's working through AO-51 and since then we have become friends via the Internet. I keep hearing ED and ED hears me via the "birds" but unfortunately we have always had too many other stations causing lots of QRM and have yet to get each other in the log! I am sure we will get over that soon with the better weather coming and the dark nights ending. Hear you can see ED's design on paper. This image shows the EA1GHW satellite antenna ready to assemble. This image shows the completed satellite dual band antenna system ready to go! Edmundo EA1GHW mentioned that he intends to add more elements to the antenna in the near future i

Sunday was a fun day for Yorkshire Radio Ham's M1PAC - Phil, M6AXL -Adam, M3TLL - Louise and myself 2E0HTS - Simon. Adam and Phil set up their station early Sunday morning up on Rombalds moor which is high up out in the sticks near to our QTH. They were running QRP and worked through plenty of pile ups on the 144 SSB portion of the VHF bands. Louise and I joined them in the afternoon and worked one or two nice contacts on HF which included the previously mentioned CRAG CASHOTA activation at Elslack operated by MX0BCQ/p with Kevin - M0XLT at the controls. Our Portable/Mobile QTH Adams New Beast of a Beam with Human Rotator Phil Phil, Adam & Louise The Yorkshire Moor Top Ham Brigade! Check out the action and signals/stations worked on the video, including M0YCM-Les, G4JNN-Paul, 5D0IPY-Rachid & MX0BCQ/P-Kevin.

This week Louise - M3TLL and myself were invited to attend the Craven Radio Amateur Group  Club meeting at their Club headquarters. The CRAG group are a very active group of radio amateurs that operate from North Yorkshires Craven District. On arrival we were well received by all of the Craggie's and it was great to be able to put faces to the voices I have been speaking with for so long. The evening was very interesting as the Club had an video evening  arranged which featured the latest digital mode - D-STAR. The video was very informative and was quite exclusive as the R.S.G.B region 4 Deputy region manager Nigel - G1JKE who presented the film had not had the opportunity to show at his local club yet.  The evening also included a special presentation to Chris - 2E0XLG who has recently upgraded his licence from his foundation call M3XLG.  Chris had made tremendous progress whilst operating under M3XLG with a maximum output power of 10 watts. Chris's achievements were outstand

Since last summer many off you have contacted me regarding the Satellite antenna designed by EA4CYQ which is known as the IOIo beam. I already have built a total of 5 IOIo antenna's so far, all slightly different made up of anything available at hand. As many of you already know I have been working the ISS and many Satellites from my shack using IOIo beams with good results running QRP. So with the feedback and fantastic comments I have been receiving I thought I would try a next version using some materials I had knocking around.  But this time I thought I would share the build and decided to post the step by step instructions here at ham radio operator blogspot and planet ham. The EA4CYQ original design was followed and this is how it goes! Materials used: 12mm aluminium box section tube. (boom) 3mm plastic sheet. (insulators and clamps) 2.4mm Welding wire. (elements) Various self tapping screws. Cable ties. 50 ohm feeder/coaxial cable. (2 lengths for dual bands) Sponge foam a

The Northern Cross Radio Rally took place earlier today and saw myself and Louise M3TLL  check out it's new venue at Ossett School near Wakefield. The new venue took a bit of finding and gave both Louise and myself a good chuckle when the guys operating the talk in frequency had difficulties in directing us in. Once we found our own way we were able to advise them and other rally travelling hams how to get there h.i The Venue Ossett School Once we ventured inside there were one or two interesting seller's with the usual plugs and fittings This vendor got it right, very well organised in bags of 10, I bought £10 worth of PL259 plugs. It should keep me quiet for a week or two. Tempting but I must have enough antenna's (according to the YL). Some good reading courtesy of the RSGB book stand. A nice selection of mobile antenna. Junk Sale? Is there such a thing when it comes to radio equipment? Myself 2E0HTS in shopping mode. Other Yorkshire Hams on the hunt for a bargain. The W