Fill yer boots!

#hamradio 12m FT8/FT4 was pretty good today, VK, JA, 3D, DS, YB, and then some VE and a number of US station. Also managed a couple of SSB which was nice, just SV and UA9. Best in the log however, would have to be 10m SSTV to Virginia. Isn't it nice when the band is alive. How about you?

You get snow - there could be some use there, but i think if i had heating and soup, i would quite enjoy not being able to contact people for a few days, or them me.

I live in central Scotland, the world never ends here; it just feels like it sometimes.

Just over 14 years ago I bought my first ham radio magazine, after discovering that ham radio was a thing through SWL. Quite coincidentally it featured the club local to me who would take me through my 1st exam 5 years later.

20m is frisky

Here is a semi interesting thing i found as i have been playing with winlink. NOAA weather forecasts for US states. Details in the pics - You send the email with the state code and you get a weather report back. Obviously you can do this with regular mail- i am just doing it with winlink because...

It works, but mostly i spend time trying to find a channel that i can connect to; it is far from smooth operation on HF. I do recall my ham trainers waxing lyrical about in back i 2015, when they used it in the 90s VHF for the club. But hey - you find a need for these things... or you dont.

Good luck!🤞