As you may be aware, as of the 1st September 2024, the syllabus for the exams has changed. The New books are available from the RSGB, please be careful and make sure you purchase the latest (they all have a yellow front cover, see pictures below). THe Hilderstone radio club (John Hislop G7OHO) has produced …
A YouTube video on some thoughts about larning Morse Code. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QcvtbuLpbA
A YouTube video looking at an old calibrated field strength meter
Aircraft Scatter, the Hitch-Hikers Guide by Ian White, GM3SEK on the RSGB YouTube channel Aircraft Scatter by GM3SEK Monday 7th Oct 2024 @ 8pm
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
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 …
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….
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 …
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 …
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 …