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Ian Atkin 🇪🇺🌻 M9IAN 📻
@ianatkin.bsky.social
PhD chemical engineering, nuclear process engineer, Independent Birchwood Town Councillor, EV owner, avgeek, Catholic, #ActuallyAutistic, amateur radio operator M9IAN (ex 2E1IAN, M7TKN)
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#AvGeek
October 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Correct, see this from the Ofcom document
October 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Hi, is this what you're expecting when the Major Cities overlay is selected now? Very few labels but "city lights" appearing both for daylight and night time cities. Cache clearing isn't helping
September 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"What did you do on Friday night Ian?"

"Just the usual, catching up on the Corgi racing on ESPN 8 The Ocho..."

youtu.be/0KznRV9Yv7M?...
August 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
20m FT8 not going too badly tonight on the cheapo AliExpress vertical, first ever contacts with China and Kazakhstan too! #AmateurRadio
August 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Captured using my AliExpress 5m long vertical whip thingy I posted about the other day... 🤷‍♂️

Still going and working surprisingly well!
August 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Inspired by this website put together by a fellow OARC member I fired up fldigi and tried leaving it to decode some wefax... in no time at all I'm up to date on ice in the Arctic, north Atlantic weather, and Tropical Storm Erin
radio.doismellburning.co.uk/projects/the...
#AmateurRadio
August 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Bought one of those very cheap and fairly cheerful vertical antennas on Aliexpress - whacked it up in the garden, 15W FT8 on 20m and made my first ever Japan QSO 🤯

Once again my flabber has been gasted!

#AmateurRadio
August 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
24h of WSPR on 20m @ 2W, not a terrible effort #AmateurRadio
July 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Testing using WSPR after messing with my antenna... over 8000km/W would suggest it's working ok 🙂 #amateurradio
July 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
You probably already know about this but I'm seeing some slightly mad graphics at the moment!
July 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Full scale deflection on the living room Galileo thermometer today 🥵
June 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Condor - undeniably the best liveries in the business #avgeek

Taken at Frankfurt airport yesterday
June 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Consider my flabber well and truly gasted - can't believe that worked! @arissintl.bsky.social #amateurradio
June 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Well that's... something #amateurradio
June 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
May 30, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Welcome to the greatest week of all... Eurovision week!

Here are my top ten tips for the week...
May 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Learned from @georgeeaton.bsky.social article that the village I grew up in recorded the highest vote share for Reform anywhere in the country at last week's local elections - bleakness of the highest order
May 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Don't think I'll bother firing the radio up tonight... #amateurradio
April 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Setting up an ADS-B receiver can be entertaining, even if the antenna is "suboptimal" (a magmount stuck to a baking tray in the loft!) 📡

Can clearly see approach-departure tracks from Manchester as well as GA traffic at Barton and through the Manchester Low Level Corridor ✈️
April 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I'm still pretty new to this game but I did *not* expect this on 10m at 9pm...
March 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A very obscure (for me) FT4 QSO today on 12m - I had to look up where Saint Barthelemy was when it popped up in WSTJX 😳
March 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Come on BBC, you're better than this
January 20, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Just noticed the @flightradar24.com ADS-B track of this EK A380 arriving at MAN has quite a big error (or it landed in a field) - is this the result of GPS degradation en route?
January 7, 2025 at 6:41 PM
December 4, 2024 at 5:43 PM