Monthly Archives: June 2012

IRTS 80m Counties contest

EI2WRC/P, Tankardstown, 90 minutes setting up, 3 Hours for the contest, 19 Counties, 30 EI/GI, 5 outside the Island of Ireland, 40 minutes taking it all apart.    Fun way to spend an afternoon. Thanks to Paula McCarthy of the … Continue reading

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Radio-Active weekend

In between cleaning the rubbish off the deck, entertaining my cousin Saturday afternoon, getting the tables and chairs out, putting the glass back into the glasshouse (literally), and getting the lawn cut. I got some time to look at some … Continue reading

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ADS-B and Xastir

It’s a rainy day, nothing much else to be doing so why not throw some python together to link an ADS-B receiver to Xastir. Well, thats what G0HWW did this afternoon, while I cruised the HF bands for victims.  

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