Radio

I enjoy operating from home and out portable in the car and on foot.

I've been licenced since 2013, I did a course for the foundation at Southport and District, then self studied for the intermediate, sat the exam at West Manchester radio club. I self studied for my full during Covid in early 2020 and sat the exam at home.

I'm within range of a bunch of pretty busy repeaters at home, I can hear Manchester City (the little one with the grass runway) airport ground, bits of the ship canal, and Manchester International airport so there's plenty to listen to most of the time.

Like most people, I live on a normal street and have a normal sized garden, so my antenna are all compromised. I dream about moving to the country to a nice house with a 5 acre garden and a ton of tall trees but until then, I work with what I have!

I'm a fan of ADS-B, I think it's amazing that I can tune into air traffic and decode it with a radio. At the bottom of the page is a live view of planes flying overhead now that uses the OpenSky API.

Yaesu FTdx10 on the desk — My FTdx10 base station at home.

Radios I can't hold in my hand

Yaesu FTdx10 (home station)
Yaesu FT8900R (10m, 6m, 2m & 70cm mobile)
Yaesu FT891 (mobile HF)
Retevis RT95 (2m & 70cm mobile)
UbitX v5 & v6 (80, 40m, 15m & 10m DIY jobbie)

Radios I can hold in my hand

Yaesu FT3D
Alinco DJ-MD5
Yaesu FT-65E
Baofeng UV 5RH
Quansheng UV K5s with various firmware
Loads of other Boafengs

A trio of handhelds — My favourite threesome.

Antennas

…normal house, normal street, compromised antennas…

Diamond X50 on the roof
Random end fed wire from the roof to the tree
DX Commander classic vertical
DX Commander venture vertical mobile multiband vertical
M1ECC Slidewinder with a 7 segment military folder
Couple of 2m & 70cm whips for magmount use
Whopper 2m DIY yagi
Many many other DIYers; satellite QFH, ADSB spider, tape measure yagi etc.

SDRs

RTL SDR v4
RTL SDR v3
Airspy mini
HackRF One with a Portapack H4M

Contact

QSL via eQSL / QRZ messages.

For non-radio, use adminatdomaindotcom and if you're not a scammer or a spammer I'll get back to you

Planes Flying Over M0MNF HQ

It uses OpenSky's API for live data. Click a marker to see the recent track.

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ISS live tracker

Shows the current position of the ISS.

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Status: updating… • Data: wheretheiss.at • Map: OSM