I became interested in amateur radio back in the early 90s, I’d recently moved house and the chap opposite had a rather large aerial in his back garden. It turned out that he was a CB radio operator and that the aerial was a half wave vertical on top of a scaffold pole. I popped … Read more
Hi, I’m Andy and this site is mainly about my interests in ham radio, the linux operating system and computers. I bought my first desktop computer around 30 years ago, second hand, and I seem to remember that it had an 80286 processor running at something like 12 Mhz. It came with Microsoft Windows 3.0 … Read more
The Hack Green HF WebSDR is a great way to listen to radio hams via the internet, especially if you’re unable to erect HF aerials at home. The SDR is really easy to operate and allows users to listen to any of the amateur bands from 160M (Topband) all the way to 17Meters. There is … Read more