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Paddy G4MAD
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Quote post with your own dramatic black and white selfie...
November 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Probably as bad as it gets.

#hamradio #solar
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 AM
It's amazing what you can find on Vinted. Coats, sweaters, footwear.

Oh, and a VHF Diplexer..
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Youngest had an all day Scouting activity between Coventry & Birmingham. I was taxi and it was too far to warrant coming home between trips

But perfect for 3 x POTA activations around The City Of Villains..

All QRP CW, natch.

#POTA
October 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reading up on MHSV - the computer does even more. Ham Radio meets Terminator.

As for "removing unnecessary steps in the FT8 QSO". Well IMHO that's EVERY step in FT8...
October 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The doc sent me for some routine blood tests - and you must fast before hand.

Earliest appt 2:30pm. I've not eaten for nearly 18 hours.

So at 3pm I'm having a cooked breakfast...

Desi style 😋
September 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
When your employer is losing £500M a week.

And it's been 2 weeks already....
September 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A big thanks to SDR-Kits.net for the very reasonably priced TMP plugs - delivered with lightning speed.

And thanks to the junk box for some RG-174 with BNC terminations.

Just need some peace and quiet to start the fault finding.

#hamradio #Yaesu
September 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The PA of my 1995 FT-900. The last time this was seen was by a Japanese assembly worker.

Output power falling with frequency; but transistors seem intact on a meter test.

Now waiting for some Taiko Denki TMP plugs to make test leads.

#hamradio #yaesu
September 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The previous owner obviously used Boggit, Billem & Runne to install the cabinet around the boiler.

A large tub of filler and some proper Rawl® Plugs will have it sorted ready for the next tenant.
August 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Another spot of holiday QRP is now QRT.

Not bad for 5W and a bit of wire...
August 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
When in Aldburgh, eat like a north Londoner!
August 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@amprepairservices.bsky.social

Added you to my phone contacts.

Found an up to date picture too!
August 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Aunty Mary on the ol' Chocolate Biscuit.....
July 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
James O’Brien on LBC Monday

“How can people profess to be more offended by an idiot rapper shouting bilge from a stage in Somerset than they are by the continuing carnage in Gaza?

An Israeli cabinet member recently called for “every Palestinian man in Gaza to be killed – that is genocide.”
July 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Only Neil would have the audacity to play a foot pump organ live on stage at Glastonbury.

Keep On Rockin'

@neilyoungarchives.bsky.social
June 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Time to sample the latest brew
June 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
From Saturday's Guardian newspaper.

But is it too late to save #bbcworldservice
May 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The same duet, 34 years apart.

My, how we've grown.

#landrover #pridemonth
May 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Well there are worse places to spend #veday
May 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A BELATED HAPPY WORLD LAND ROVER DAY 2025

World Land Rover Day is celebrated annually on April 30th, to commemorate the launch of the original Land Rover Series 1 at the Amsterdam Motor Show in 1948.

#landrover #Masirahisland
May 1, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Longwave is dead?
"longwave uses just 4% of the BBC’s analogue output power FM networks consume significantly more energy"

3 longwave Vs 217 FM Vs 416 DAB transmitters

radiotoday.co.uk/2025/04/repo...
Report: BBC Longwave broadcasts remain vital amid calls to halt planned switch off
As the BBC prepares to switch off its longwave transmissions in 2025 — marking the end of a century of broadcasting history — a new report is urging a dramatic rethink
radiotoday.co.uk
April 30, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Stick your filthy clorinated chicken up your bright orange arse @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social

We're protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals act.38degrees.org.uk/act/No-chlor...
Keir Starmer: Stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals
I just signed the campaign calling Keir Starmer to stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals
act.38degrees.org.uk
April 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
@amprepairservices.bsky.social

Recognise this hill??

There were a few more masts last time you were there....
March 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM