RA3XCE on 20 meters booming in to London Heathrow right now pic.twitter.com/DrV4xmPEaq
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) June 13, 2022
Monday, 13 June 2022
RA3XCE on 20 meters booming in to London Heathrow right now
LY4A Lithuania 🇱🇹 in the log 40 Meters contact
LY4A Lithuania 🇱🇹 in the log 40 Meters contact pic.twitter.com/0eR7ijDb9I
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) June 13, 2022
Trying out the @Icom_UK 7300 tone scan function on 10 meters
Trying out the @Icom_UK 7300 tone scan function on 10 meters, not the best conditions right now, but will report back on HF repeaters and random good conditions. @jonathancreaser @HamRadioUK @echelfordars pic.twitter.com/XYlLH6rhvm
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) June 13, 2022
IK4YL worked on 20 meters
IK4YL on 20 meters tonight booming into London Heathrow from Czech Republic Ostrava. Thanks Elena great call sign too!! #MX0MXO @Icom_UK @echelfordars @HamRadioUK @jonathancreaser pic.twitter.com/UWjFrxo640
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) June 13, 2022
Sunday, 12 June 2022
20 meters qso with VK3MO in Australia
I just made Melbourne Australia vk3mo on 30 meters great and long copy ! So happy! @Icom_UK @echelfordars @HamRadioUK #mx0mxo pic.twitter.com/6qEGVVdRTl
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) June 12, 2022
10 Meter Beacons weer alive and kicking today!
28mhz beacons heard today in IO91 first I think is I0KN 28.234 in Italy pic.twitter.com/WWHom81dlN
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) June 12, 2022
Thursday, 2 June 2022
Platinum Jubilee GB70E, Cherstey Beacon lighting, Some planes flying over Staines
@GB70_SES #gGB70E on 2 meters calling CQ for all local hams @echelfordars @jonathancreaser @HamRadioUK @AmsatUK pic.twitter.com/MifSBgnh0p
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) June 2, 2022
Representing Chertdey Radio club at Saint Anne’s Hill beacon lighting @RunnymedeBC God Dave the queen pic.twitter.com/OVR1wM03YI
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) June 2, 2022
#Staines just now, near miss or part of #PlatinumJubilee @HeathrowAirport pic.twitter.com/nCHCPkynZ7
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) June 2, 2022
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
Kids code ran in space for 3 hours and took some great pictures from the ISS
@MakExpOp helped children write #pyhton code which was "Flight Approved" and ran for 90 minutes on the #ISS it took the images below and also temperature, humidity and location. Stage 4 is to analyse the data and report back thanks to @astro_pi @esa for this great opportunity. pic.twitter.com/8fJDiljS14
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) May 31, 2022
Saturday, 28 May 2022
qo-100 POTA more MX0MXO portable in the part / Bob makes his first qo-100 contact
Guess whose got a brand new dish to play with tonight? Join #MX0MXO on @qo100_sat this evening for more portable fun @Icom_UK @AMSAT @AmsatUK @echelfordars #hamradio #pota pic.twitter.com/cXSpQa15x8
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) May 21, 2022
Chertsey radio club #MX0MXO is portable and on @qo100_sat making lots of contacts please join us pic.twitter.com/WBn9dgmO4s
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) May 28, 2022
So many contacts @qo100_sat thank you all #MX0MXO pic.twitter.com/oOP7U42KKa
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) May 28, 2022
Bob made his first @qo100_sat QSL tonight as well, Brazil no less !!! #MX0MXO pic.twitter.com/gzKMT3hgws
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) May 28, 2022
20 meters also fairly active, Azores, Brazil, Germany and Russia. #MX0MXO pic.twitter.com/FSEnC2CGef
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) May 28, 2022
Saturday, 14 May 2022
Saturday, 7 May 2022
MX0MXO was portable in Laleham Park working satellites and HF
Saturday, 30 April 2022
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Saturday, 16 April 2022
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Saturday, 26 March 2022
Saturday, 19 March 2022
Stop war Ukraine
So this is happening !!!! pic.twitter.com/aPJiUG1GKT
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) March 19, 2022
Saturday, 12 March 2022
Just worked #gb5cc on cw 7.014
Just worked #gb5cc on cw 7.014 pic.twitter.com/uNEfnA43LJ
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) March 12, 2022
Sunday, 6 March 2022
Radio Romania International (SWL)
@RRInternational I'm not able to submit reception report but great signal last Saturday London Haethrow using @Icom_UK 7300 radio and vertical antenna. James (m0jfp) can I get a mention tonight? pic.twitter.com/oRWFUiogHJ
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) March 12, 2022
And the Europeans are active e on 14Mhz 20 meters giving away points for @arrl contest
And the Europeans are active e on 14Mhz 20 meters giving away points for @arrl contest @Icom_UK 9300 pic.twitter.com/KBzFvtLhx2
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) March 6, 2022
First time using @Icom_UK 9300 built in RTTY doing a good job on 7Mhz / 40 meters
First time using @Icom_UK 9300 built in RTTY doing a good job on 7Mhz / 40 meters pic.twitter.com/sEiavxbpI8
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) March 6, 2022
21Mhz full of US stations @arrl contest great to work so many over the weekend
21Mhz full of US stations @arrl contest great to work so many over the weekend @Icom_UK 9300 pic.twitter.com/Zb2H9CCQFj
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) March 6, 2022
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Sunday, 27 February 2022
Various shortwave radio reception on web sdr, including the world famous Russian Buzzer attempted hackings....
Saturday, 26 February 2022
Chertsey out portable in the park, Peru on 20 meters and several Satellite contcts
Last night @MakExpOp #mx0mxo was out in the park again. Best contact Peru on 20 meters, Big French contest on all bands, lots of points given away. Satellites XW-2A and RS-44 I to Spain too. Can't complain good evening. pic.twitter.com/G0oTDxFWT8
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) February 27, 2022
MX0MXO portable laleham park
Last night out in the park again. Best contact Peru on 20 meters, Big French contest on all bands, lots of points given away. Satellites XW-2A and RS-44 into Spain too. Can't complain good evening.
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
ISS school contact in German
Great copy from IO91SK #Staines in the UK pic.twitter.com/lfQxRpl4GL
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) February 22, 2022
ARISS ct. w/Gewerbliche Schulen Donaueschingen, Donaueschingen, Germany. The ct. is on Feb 10 at 10:01 UTC. Ct. is dir. w/ DN2FIS. Watch for live stream at https://kmz-sbk.de/livestream/
Sunday, 20 February 2022
prepare for ISS Xband repeater carnage
Just got in on a 4 degree pass @ARISS_status @IK1SLD_ARISS @Icom_UK @echelfordars @HamRadioUK #iss XBand pic.twitter.com/a3ZGSYaX4m
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) February 20, 2022
Current Status of ISS Stations
Columbus Module radios:
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IORS (Kenwood D710GA) – STATUS - Configured. Current mode set to cross band
repeater (145.990 MHz up {PL 67} & 437.800 MHz down). Next mode change to support packet operation
(145.825 MHz up & down) is currently TBD.
- Radio will be used for ARISS Digital SSTV experiment on Feb 20 from 05:00 UTC until 12:00 UTC while ISS is in range of Europe. Please give a clear channel.
EA7P good efforts #iss XBand pic.twitter.com/gd0j6Pf6Sb
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) February 20, 2022
#ISS #CW ident signifies end of day XBand operations! @Icom_UK @ARISS_status @IK1SLD_ARISS @echelfordars @MX5AKA @HamRadioUK pic.twitter.com/Kumu5gLY6h
— James Preece (M0JFP) (@m0jfp) February 20, 2022
ARISS Europe to Perform Special Digital SSTV Experiment
We kindly request that the amateur radio community refrain from the use of the voice repeater thin this SSTV experiment on 20th of February 2022 over Europe.
This is a unique and official ARISS experiment. We kindly request keeping the voice repeater uplink free from other voice transmissions during the experiment time period. Also note that ARISS is temporarily employing the voice repeater to expedite these experiments and make a more permanent, more expansive SSTV capability fully operational on other downlink frequencies.
The first experiment in the series will utilize ARISS approved ground stations in Europe that will transmit these digital SSTV signals. These will be available for all in the ISS footprint when SSTV transmissions occur. The first SSTV experiment is planned for 20 February 2022 between 05:10 UTC and 12:00 UTC for five ISS passes over Europe. Please be aware that this event depends on ARISS IORS radio availabilities and ISS crew support, so last-minute changes may occur.
To promote quick experimental SSTV investigations—to learn and improve--the ARISS team will employ the ISS Kenwood radio in its cross-band repeater mode. The crossband repeater operates on a downlink of 437.800 MHz. Each transmission sequence will consist of 1:40 minute transmission, followed by 1:20 minute pause and will be repeated several times within an ISS pass over Europe.
The used modulation is MSK w/o error correction. For the decoding of the 320 x 240 px image, the software KG-STV is required. The KG-STV software can be downloaded from the following link: "http://amsat-nl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/kgstv_ISS.zip"
The ZIP file contains the KG-STV program, an installation and setup manual, some images and MP3 audio samples for your first tests as well as links for additional technical information about the KG-STV use.
The members of the ham radio community youth and the public are invited to receive and decode these special SSTV signals.
Experiment reports are welcome and should be uploaded to "sstvtest@amsat-on.be"
More information will be available on the AMSAT-NL.org web page: "https://amsat-nl.org/?page_id=568"
(for the team: Oliver Amend, DG6BCE)
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