5. Amateur Radio

I’ve always been interested in Amateur Radio, ever since being a small boy and sweeping over the bands and picking up police or Radio Caroline, but never really did anything about it.

During lock down I saw that RSGB and ofcom were removing the requirement for practical assessments, so I decided to put in for the foundation exam. I bought the revision guide and installed exam quiz for the iphone, and went to work. Essex Ham also have great foundation training videos, chat, live stream etc. I also joined the local radio group, CDARS. 2 weeks later I took and passed the foundation exam.

5.1. Licenses

• M7GUY (Foundation) - 22 April 2020

• 2E0GUW (Intermediate) - 04 September 2020

• M0GUY (Full) - 06 November 2020

5.2. Radio Interests

I joined RAYNET UK a few days later, and since joined the technical team where I’ve been working on DMR and building out a DMR network for RAYNET use.

• 5.2.1. Radios
  • 5.2.1.1. Baofeng T1 Radio
  • 5.2.1.2. Radioddity 73A
  • 5.2.1.3. Anytone 868
• 5.2.2. DMR
  • 5.2.2.1. DMR Protocol
  • 5.2.2.2. HBLink DMR
  • 5.2.2.3. Settings up a Pi-Star DMR Hotspot
  • 5.2.2.4. Portable DMR HotSpot
  • 5.2.2.5. RAYNET DMR
  • 5.2.2.6. Building from scratch
• 5.2.3. SO239 Plates
• 5.2.4. Slim Jim Antenna
• 5.2.5. SSTV
• 5.2.6. Laptop
• 5.2.7. Portable Battery Pack
• 5.2.8. Portable Power Distribution

5.3. Logging

You can review my QSL logbook.