@g7hem.bsky.social
Radio ham, SOTA MG, hill walker, coder ... and whatever else has grabbed my attention this week.
It's more efficient to drive engagement via negatively than positivity. Isn't that Twitter's business model? I don't like it.
29.11.2025 12:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A bit of tropo lift at the weekend so I took a walk up my local SOTA with my 5W handheld and talked to someone sitting in their car 227 miles away, 59 both ways. Now I wished I'd taken the FT-857 and 6 ele beam! Very happy with that contact though.
14.10.2025 22:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0(note to self: proof read before posting!)
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Also, and quite unusually for me because normally I never win anything, I won a LoRa APRS tracker in the raffle which I'm dead chuffed about!
15.06.2025 09:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic day out yesterday. Firstly, SOTA activation of t Clee Hill for a S2S party, which to me from 999 yo 1008 chaser points. Then onto the annual GW SOTA hog roast which was a blast. Lovely to catch up with people and finally meet some of the people I've been talking to for years.
15.06.2025 09:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Looking forward to the GW SOTA hog roast in a couple of weeks! And will be activating from a mid Wales summit too, one I haven't done yet. Planning on going all out for that one ... the usual vhf, uhf and 23cm, and unusually for me, hf!
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Just come back from a lovely weekend in Wales with family and managed a couple of SOTA summits along the way.
GW/NW-046 Rhialgwm
GW/NW-012 Cadair Berwyn
I would have gone on hf but it was too windy (30+ mph) for all that antenna support and wire.
Sunday 27 April
Afternoon: 20km mountain biking around Mortimer Forest including a SOTA activation of High Vinnalls G/WB-012.
Evening: one hour on the microlight over Shropshire with a newbie in the other seat.
View from the top of Stiperstones, showing broken rock a heather covered heathland.
Had a lovely day out on Sunday exploring Stiperstones. Usually it's number 4 out of 5 of the day and I just go straight to the trig point, do my SOTA thing and then back to the car. It's a great place, especially when the sun is shining, which it was.
#SOTA
#G/WB-003
Was in Cornwall over the weekend and ticked another 2 summits off the SOTA list. G/DC-002 Brown Willy and G/SC-003 Beacon Batch on the way home. Just about managed to qualify both on VHF.
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