The MØTZO Blog

D-Star APRS with Icom IC-E29D & HM-175GPS mic

A few weeks ago I ordered the Icom GPS mic from an eBay seller in Canada. Took a little longer to be delivered than the 6-10 days I was quoted, but I blame the postal services, not the seller. I wanted to use with the DPRS (digital APRS) & it took a bit of research and even [...]

Welcome from Gadget17

Or should that be Goodbye to??? It was well overdue, but I have decided to stop (or limit) using my old online Nickname and will use my Ham Radio callsign instead. www.gadget17.co.uk now re-directs to www.m0tzo.co.uk I have also stopped using elsewhere, or at least made dormant for now. I’ve had my M0TZO callsign for 3 years+ now. I [...]

Working 2E0HTS on 80m using PSK31

CQ CQ de MØTZO MØTZO CQ CQ de MØTZO MØTZO CQ CQ de MØTZO MØTZO PSE K - MØTZO MØTZO de 2EØHTS 2EØHTS Thanks for the callback Paul nice to see you on here and Twitter. Your RST is 599 599. My name is Simon Simon, QTH is BAILDON BAILDON in IO93CU [339.3° 293.8km] IO93CU. How copy? nice to get [...]

CQWW SSB Contest 2009

So I have just put my mic down as promised myself I wouldn’t operate between 11pm-7am when at home. How did I do? Well I decided to try to beat a previous score from home, and I did more than I planned. Although the IARU contest was only 24 hours long, was only other contest this year [...]

Getting back on HF

It’s been a while (except in contests) that I have really been on HF. So this weekend I decided to get back on HF using PSK31. Which usually most evenings I spend in front of the PC & radio anyway, so using that mode shouldn’t be that difficult. Sunday evening I tried, but was drowned out by [...]

RSGB Convention Calendars

I am going to the RSGB Convention (formerly HFC) http://www.rsgb.org/rsgbconvention/ in October and made some calendars so I can view on my phone. Thought I would make them publicly available. Enjoy! Online version http://www.rsgb.org/rsgbconvention/events_programme.php Operating & DXing XML – iCAL - HTML Technical XML – iCAL – HTML VHF & up XML – iCAL – HTML Contest University A XML – iCAL – HTML Contest [...]

Learning to Drive

A few weeks ago before payday I decided the time had come for me to start learning to drive (again). I guess I had actually sown the seeds of this idea when I got my provisional licence renewed in September 08, but only recently did I have the final part really in place. The money. I had [...]

2009 IARU HF World Championship Contest

I took part in the 2009 IARU HF World Championship Contest for few hours on Saturday Night a few on Sunday Morning. I didn’t have a target and just worked mostly 20m & 40m on Saturday night and then 10m, 15m and some more 20m on Sunday morning. Peter M3PHP just had to beat me getting 79 [...]

Friedrichshafen 2009

This was written at various times over the weekend I was at Friedrichshafen on my Nokia N95 8Gb phone. I was going to edit, but thought would be better to just post as is from the notepad on my phone. Only editing was making this into 1 post instead of three. Enjoy. Photos are on my [...]

May 2009 update (or what have I been doing)

To start this post I have gone digital. I finally decided the time had come, and I had the funds to give D-Star a try. The choice is one I am not regretting (so far). I purchased the very rig in the photo, it’s an Icom IC-E92D. I should point out that in some countries this radio [...]