Field strength (a bit silly in places)
A YouTube video looking at an old calibrated field strength meter
Aircraft Scatter, the Hitch-Hikers Guide by Ian White, GM3SEK
Aircraft Scatter, the Hitch-Hikers Guide by Ian White, GM3SEK on the RSGB YouTube channel Aircraft Scatter by GM3SEK Monday 7th Oct 2024 @ 8pm
New contesting section
Under “Categories”, thre is a new section dedicated to contesting. There is an interesting YouTube video of M0XXJ operating in the 6M UK AC contest on 10th Feb 2022, and you can hear him working some familiar callsigns. If anyone has any extra vidoes, articles or links, please let the webnmaster know
Tetra 5 Vulnerabilities
Seems Tetra has problems Tetra Vulnerabilities The biggest issues are: CVE-2022-24401 – The Air Interface Encryption (AIE) keystream generator relies on the network time, which is publicly broadcast in an unauthenticated manner. This allows for decryption oracle attacks. CVE-2022-24402 – The TEA1 algorithm has a backdoor that reduces the original 80-bit key to a key …
Training page updated
A few more useful resources for anyone wishing to upgrade from foundation to intermediate…. or from intermediate to full and an excellent morse code course….
Easter Activity
This Easter we have an something to get you all on air. The Easter Activity! The idea is, you dust of your radio(s) and put them to use, and make as many contacts as you can with other club members. This runs from Friday the 1st of April 2022 to Saturday 30th April 2022. All …
G8ZAX/2E0RWR New Mast
The day has finally come, and the mast has been installed. Gary and his son turned up 1st thing Monday morning, and by lunchtine it was all completed. A couple of days to make sure all has set, and we will be able to put it to the test. Don’t worry, it is straight, I …
Linking repeaters
At the meeting last night, there was some discussion regarding the frailty of infrastructure. Mike G6PTY brought to our attentiuon, a link setup between two UK 70cms repeaters which is not using the internet. South Hampshire Repeater link This is using a point to point Wi-Fi link between Southampton and Portsmouth (13 miles), and can …
GDRS Christmas Natter and Nibbles 2020
The 2020 Christmas Natter and Nibbles was a little different, being held over Zoom… but it was well attended by many menbers of both the GDRS and the Wey Valley Amateur Radio Group. We especially delighted that a few of our distant members were able to join in.
The VHF/UHF DX Book
The VHF/UHF DX Book is now available as a free download, from the website of the copyright owners TRPublishing. http://www.trpub.net/html/dx_book.htm