Mike Rawlins

Had builders in for the past five weeks, doing stuff that builders do, drink tea and build stuff.

They're gone now, all so quiet.

Now I have cleaned up behind them, I need to get back in my office/shack and get the radios back up and running.

Did Armitage Shanks install those porcelain beauties for you?

Trump on roof

Trump on roof

(h/t @helenkennedy.bsky.social)

'to be fair', he incited a racist mob, then removed the evidence from his feed.

We have seen this type of behaviour many times, from racists & bigots.

I got an email with that link and just sent them stuff.

I think it took about eight hours to complete, which, given time differences, etc, isn't too bad.

lotw.arrl.org/lotw-help/au...

I got an email asking for stuff and I just sent it back licence and some other ID, cooncil tax I think

I joined in June and just had to send a pdf of my licence letter from Ofcom

I think they have to put these up now, after they killed a little old lady on her way to a medical appointment.

Four helicopters on a grey, cloudy sky.

Marine 1 with a convicted felon onboard, a decoy helicopter and two Chinook helicopters doing a fly past this evening.

And we're done. Well apart from a bit of trunking to tidy the cables up.

Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76, his family announces A statement from his family says Osbourne was with his family and

That last gig did for him.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

#RIPOZZY

Use of 430-440 MHz by AST SpaceMobile constellation AST & Science LLC (AST SpaceMobile) currently have five Bluebird commercial satellites that use the amateur radio 430-440 MHz band. They were launched into Low Earth Orbit on September 12, 2024…

If you are a satellite operator and have not filed an objection against AST SpaceMobile's request to use 70cm, it's time to get busy. There's still time.

Don't just sit waiting for other organisations to do it on your behalf.

amsat-uk.org/2025/06/26/u...

Yeah it is an odd picture. I'm not sure why there is so much reflection, it is black mesh, no glass or perspex.

The cabinet is mounted on the wall halfway between the top of the cupboard and the ceiling, so I can access it top and bottom.

Trying to enthuse my partner into the world of #amateurradio, she is reading Classic Tractor magazine.

'I've not got time for that, I'm up to my tits in tractors'.

I think she's a keeper.

This evening's project. I've installed a network cabinet. Tomorrow I'll start to reroute cables and terminate them in the panel, with some appropriate snipping I'll be able to gain some extra network points without too much work.

I can then set my radio's and PC up on cat5 rather than WiFi.

We have our safe phrase..

You're being a dick head

That normally sorts things out, or has done so far. Next week may be different 😂

Two days would be a dream. We have just finished week three of five.... We are both working hard at not losing our sense of humour....

It was fish Friday for us, so we are on frige surprise this evening. Still living like we are camping while the kitchen is refitted..

IYKYK

Galway liberated from Indians
The day the Ice Age ended

I despair at the state of 'journalism' these days.

I've not bothered to click through to the actual article, the headline and sub are enough.

I think I will write up the build notes and publish them, give something back to the #radioamateyr family.

Just like a new one.

Gaffer tape for the win..

and also saves me having to desolder and resolder. Duck tape it is!

I think it is, yes. For 40 meters

Duck tape fixes most things

I think I may need to print a new enclosure for my EFHW.

A fine Sunday, breakfast by the sea and a run out with the roof down.

It's not that Gregg Wallace shoots himself in the foot that is amazing, it is how quickly he manages to reload the gun for another shot.

You have to wonder, why it has been purchased by a Czech billionaire if it is such a rubbish business model.

So Daniel (Křetínský), what was it about the acres of prime real estate in the centre of every British town that first attracted you to IDS the owners of Royal Mail?