John Walker G0JQN went silent key on the 21st april 2008. 
John was a member of our contest group for several years until ill health made it difficult for him to operate.
I just returned from John’s funeral, it was very well attended. John was a non beleiver so the service was not religious but a very interesting insight to [...]

The team arrived in good time on Friday before the 0000 UTC start. The team consisted of Simon M0CLW, Mark M0DXR, Simon 2E0CVN, Peter G3TJE, Pete M3PHP and me G6PZ.
Our target number of qso’s this year was 3000, we ended up with over 4000.
Condititions on the bands were reasonable given where we are in the cycle which allowed [...]

I was operating on 30m today and it was really odd. I like cw and I guess 99.5% of my time is cw and I operate at around 30wpm. My preferred style is to call cq wait for a reply then give a report say tu and move on.
This way you can generate a pile [...]

International Marconi Day ( I M D ) is on the 26th April, a celebration of Guglielmo Marconi’s Birthday.
As usual the station will be hosting the event to represent Marconi’s Brean Down site. On the 18th May 1897 the furthest wireless communication at the time from Lavernock point in South Wales to Brean Down Somerset [...]

M/S HP — Ops: G6PZ, G4MJS, M0CLW, M5RIC
Claimed score: 6,755,304 mil

My first blog so I guess as station engineer a low down on the recent shack re-fit is appropriate.
The original shack was starting to get tired and as more and more equipment found its way to the operating positions it was getting a little cramped.
I’ve been thinking about a re-fit for a [...]