Some potential for meeting SV hams coming up more easily. 2e1gw/qrpp just moved out there for a course. When scouting around near where he's staying in Thessaloniki, I did a course there some 20+ years ago so know the place, I spotted a lot of antennas! They allow direct reciprocal if you write.

Finally the low power digipeater and igate 2E1GW-11 lives. m0jks LoRa APRS unit at roof level. Running the bare heltec board with no PA. Let's see how it goes. #hamradio

The joys of travelling home from my folks awaits. A19. A1. M1. Although weekend Clergy duties at Milton Keynes this week so stop off there at least. Will have LoRA APRS on. Need to look at my ftm400 as keeps switching off for regular APRS. Leeds Skelton Lake might provide a good stopping point.

One of life's great truths this one!

Time to demo the flex 6300 at home to my dad M0WJW. Given he's originally a G8 the lack of physical tuning and so forth is likely to cause chaos. #hamradio

With my Clergy hat partially on (possibly literally) wondering if I should do CHOTA this year or in coming years from my current alternating week with Northampton to the Greek Orthodox Community of Milton Keynes in Stony Stratford. Guessing 13th is a bit close but thinking grounds and 705.

Back on here. Been busy. Current world situation on other platforms got unbearable again. Probably more beneficial to only be on here again for my own peace of mind.

Managed a spectacular Greg >> pavement interface last night. The old ankle gives way on bumpy tarmac classic. Fair to say ankle is not happy today. Ice and ibuprofen.

Say you had a older radio and sound interface, an antenna mounted on the car, and didn't want to drive your kids mad with SSB chats with older folk with ailments, but do digimodes /M would you go for a headerless pi that does a hotspot or is there a better idea? #hamradio #hamr

Well that was fun earlier. Got to top of my road. Car took corner at 25+mph. Nearly hit van. Swerved. Nearly hit me. Swerved. Then he drove off laughing. Not sure nearly causing a serious RTA counts as funny.

Big thank you to @m0bpq.bsky.social for getting the flex 6300 round mine operational again. We discovered after some digging about some of which happened as the sun was setting that my late father in law had done spectacular amounts of damage to my coax to my remote tuner inter alia! All good now!

HNY. That's all the excitement I can muster for it. That is all.

Right. Enough messing about. Up here helping M0WJW and my mum out as she got hit by a car just under a month ago. Tomorrow is more dog walking and hopefully getting M0WJW-10 (aprs) up again and M0WJW-11 LoRa APRS installed. Not much happening in io95 where he is so good fill-in for both modes.

In true style Parcelforce have hoofed up again. Ordered a printer from HP needing it for my volunteer church work. Got text this morning and said sent to Post Office please as I will be working. Checked in now as son hadn't found card. Claimed that I had refused delivery and its away back to HP.

And onwards we climb: Our Gofundme campaign to buy, build and operate a weather satellite imagery antenna proceeds towards £54k - help us get there by donating here (and read all about it!): www.gofundme.com/f/dundee-sat...

Got to love working in Higher Education statutory returns. The joys of having rules from the regulator and their designated data body which conflict. It's like data whack-a-mole / battling a hydra.

Will being slowly lost here today. I really am not sure under warranty and after 3 attempts they did not honour that the garage cannot work out why the android based navitainment system won't update the built in maps. Yes android auto possible but that doesn't do the turns on the HUD.

Non-working day but the joys of the garage have set in. Built in maps in my Toyota Corolla GR Sport never updated from scratch. Secondhand car. Finally got an appointment the garage is keeping to get someone to get this working. It's always good to be seeing route going on a road not a field!