Mark Riley

Teams are reporting the APRS packet radio is confirmed to be back in operation after the outage earlier this week. It's operating on UHF, 437.825 MHz.

@SDRPlay Not great timing for outages given the WRTC championship nearby this weekend, sorry to say!

The SDRplay demo nRSP-ST based in the UK (Bedfordshire) will be down intermittently today (from now) until 1200 UTC tomorrow for maintenance - the note will be updated here, when all is stable again: sdrplay.com/try-accessing-…

Macintosh emulator for ESP32-P4 boards. cnx-software.com/2026/07/05/mac… This is a port of the BasiliskII Macintosh 68k emulator, bringing classic Mac OS (System 7.x through Mac OS 8.1) to portable ESP32-P4 embedded devices with touchscreen, USB peripherals, and WiFi support through an ESP32-C6 on the boards. It currently works on @M5Stack Tab5 (5-inch) and @Waveshare00 ESP32-P4-WIFI6-Touch-LCD-10.1 (10.1-inch) devkits.

@m0cvo Happy Christmas @m0cvo and family. God bless you. M5BOP

M0CVO Antennas would like to wish a merry Christmas and happy New Year to all on this last day before Christmas 2025. m0cvoantennas.co.uk

Wishing all of our #RSGBmembers, and the whole of the #amateurradio community, a very Merry Christmas from everyone at the RSGB 🎅 🎄 ☃️ 🎁

The ARISS ops team reports work in the Columbus module appears to have restored the cross-band voice repeater functionality. Please reply with your confirmations here and share on amsat.org/status.

Interested in setting up an @ARISS_intl radio contact with an astronaut on board the @Space_Station? Schools and youth organisations are invited to submit an application and an educational project. Deadline for applications is 24 October 2025. The selection will take place in December 2025. You can find out more via ariss-eu.org/index.php/scho… #amateurradio #hamr

@m0cvo Wow, OE1RDU must be a bit of a Top Gun by the look of those fantastic QSL cards!

Nice surprise in the post today - not very often I receive direct QSL cards (normally via the Buro).

@theRSGB URL should be qrz.com/db/8K3EXPO

@m0cvo My Dad won’t recognise the place when I next send him round from Sutton to collect an antenna order!! Upgrades!

New windows for the house, fitted by First Home Improvements as per the sign. A very professional installation by very polite workers.

To celebrate 100 years of #RadCom, we've released: ✔️The Silver Jubilee edition from July 1950 ✔️The Golden Jubilee edition from July 1975 These are available for all radio amateurs to read, free of charge! Start reading by visiting our web app now: editions.rsgb.services/app/RAD971 #amateurradio #hamr

Say what?!? #hamradio

I just backed UrbX Warriors - An original game for the Spectrum Next & PC on @Kickstarter kickstarter.com/projects/tonyw…

At @hamvention we're seeing a revolution in #amateurradio before our eyes as both big ( @FlexRadioSystem ) and small ( @qrplabs ) introduce polar modulation. This technology will bring low cost, compact, sustainable and efficient SSB transceivers across the entire spectrum. #hamr #Innovation

@m0cvo Thanks Nigel @m0cvo - have ordered the LW-20 - will give it a try. Could do with another Sigma Duo-Mini, is it possible to include that in the same parcel or do I need to order separately? Couldn’t find a way of ordering both together. Mark

@hipmark I used one at previous QTH that went down the garden then 90° bend, across the bottom and then back up the other side. Worked Stateside easily on it configured thus. An 80m folded dipole would still be 40m long and a TFD that would cover 80m would be 26.67m long.

The M0CVO ANTENNAS Magitenna, only 7.6m long yet covers all bands from 40 - 6m (will also tune on 60m). Ideal for /P, /SOTA, /POTA or home use where space is limited. Also ideal for loft installation. Available from m0cvoantennas.co.uk/Products/HFAnt…

@m0cvo Thanks @m0cvo will see if the garden can accommodate a 20m long wire - suspect it would take a U-shaped path, which is probably going to give a weird radiation pattern. Any possibility of anything shorter for 80m using the same principles used in your recent FD-10G folded dipole?

@hipmark Hi Mark, End fed 80m capable is the LW-20. 66ft in length. Nigel.

@m0cvo Anything we can try out @m0cvo ?

Been busy designing a couple of new antennas. Watch this space.... 📡

@PicoAPRS Does this mean #PicoAPRS v5 is on the way, or is this a genuine ongoing price reduction?

Wimo has reduced the price of #PicoAPRS V4 from 299€ to 199€! wimo.com/de/picoaprs

@m0cvo Well done Nigel - well deserved! Great to see your thriving business producing British-made quality antennas being celebrated.

Winner! M0CVO Antennas has been awarded the title of: Best Antenna Accessories Enterprise in the SME News British Made Awards