Paul M0ZMB

Paul M0ZMB

Another Foundation pass for TSGARC

Today Ross passed his Foundation exam after a short course. Ross completed the exam in about 40 minutes and scored 24 out of 26 questions. He already has a callsign in mind M7RAE. The test was invigilated by Peter G4OST…

Build Evening

This Wednesday just gone saw the start of the SDR-Kits R3500D ARDF kit builds and exploration of the Coilcraft RF Lab Kit which arrived a couple of weeks back. The RF Lab Kit includes Inductors (0603 to 2929), Low Pass Filters and…

Distance Competition

The Thornbury and South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club Annual Distance Competition is now LIVE. Members can now submit entries to the competition organiser (Paul M0ZMB). Please see the competition pages here. Good luck to all. Paul M0ZMB

Vaisala RS41 RadioSonde captured

During Wednesday (24th January 2018) afternoon the daily 11:15am RadioSonde launch from Camburne, Cornwall decided to make its way to Wiltshire rather than France, as is the norm at the minute. I left work mid afternoon to go home and…

Arduino Beginners Course – 21st February

The kits and coursework for the Arduino beginners course are now complete and ready to run. Each kit has the following items: Item Source Qty. NodeMCU Lua V3 CH340G ESP8266 eBay h-quality_electronic 1 10pcs Micro USB cable eBay bigfashionmarket 1…

Receiving RadioSondes or not in my case

I was inspired by this recent Hackaday () post to try my hand at receiving RadioSonde messages. A RadioSonde is the box of electronics (Temperature, Pressure monitors etc , GPS receiver, Processor and UHF transmitter) that sits below a weather…