A little update to my Tango Mike CB callsign and the TM DX Group’s directory listing.
I moved from Lancashire to Shropshire in 2013, but, I forgot to inform the Tango Mike registrar of the move, so the directory entry for me, 26TM998 no longer reflected my QTH and so needed updating.
Today, I kindly heard back from Simon, G7UFS, that the entry has been updated.
Many thanks Simon.
Here is the Tango Mike directory listing for England.
On a Sunday, I take my son to his Taekwando lesson. Parked up waiting for Samuel, so, mobile today doing some CB for a change, what with the storm and the strong Russian stations clearer than UK ones, it was very difficult when only running 4 watts. Unfortunately, I don’t speak Russian.
I can hear Rob 59ST02 in Greece clear as a bell on channel 40, from the island of Rhodes, but, other stations just stomp on my replies! So I never got an over with him.
With a Thunderpole whip on a mag mount, a slightly off SWR of 2:1, and all this heavy rain, I was really struggling.
For next time, I will see if I can get the SWR lower, I used to achieve an SWR of 1.2:1 when I used the same antenna on a roof rack mount. Oddly, my SWR is higher with the mag mount. I would have expected the other way around.
Until next time…
73 de Mark, 26TM998
“Spark Transmitter”
EDIT: The SWR is now down to 1.2:1. It was found that there was some tarnish on the centre pin of the coax from the antenna. Overhauling both ends brought the SWR down nicely.
Hello and welcome to my new website for my amateur radio station M0INI. This is the story of how and why I got into amateur radio.
My father was a radio operator with the Royal Corps of Signals, and had a background in electro-mechanical engineering all his life. Obviously, with my fathers influence, as a young child, I had an interest in radio.
After leaving the army, my father was invited to teach with the Marconi School, but decided to go into engineering instead. He was never licensed.
I have shown a keen interest in radio since before CB was legalised in the UK, however, as a teen, I had a choice, CB or computers, and I chose computers. This was my first computer, an Acorn Electron, seen here still working today and operated by my son.
Like my father, we both didn’t go into a radio background, so it wasn’t until 2005 that I started to show an interest in radio again, and got on the air using CB, resurrecting my old handle from the 80’s of “Spark Transmitter”, a reference to the early days of radio and Marconi.
However, I wanted more, and looked for a radio club to study for my foundation license.
With the help of the West Manchester Radio Club, I quickly became licensed as M6INI, then later as M0INI with the help of Bolton Wireless Club.