After a quiet Christmas I drove over to Whitby
to do a mini expidition on Sunday the 28Th
I wanted to try out my new FT-817.
As you can see on 20 Mtrs I was getting a good signal.
I attached the wonder wand to my tuner.
I gave a few shouts but was not successful.
The americans ,germans and the Italians were BOOMING in .


I was Parked in a car park in a place called Sandsend.
near the sea wall looking out onto the North Sea
To see were I was parked Google earth sansend whitby uk
and zoom to the car park at the end of the A174

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With A LOT of help from ADAM (M6AXL)
Disturbed from its sleeping position on the workmate We walked the thing
with and loads of " OK OK put it down here for a bit ",
Gasp gasp wheeze wheeze(all from M1PAC) over to the T & K brackets on the wall. .Adam was doing a fine job of lifting it up as I was tightening the clamps
all to put another piece of scaffold pipe underneath it .Satisfied that it doesn't need to be any higher now all I need to do is poke the coax through the hole in the wall along with the control cable



All I need to do then is take down the desk I have in the corner and replace it with my big wooden office .That's when all the hard work starts, cutting holes screwing shelves, mounting radio's oh boy am I going to have some fun.
I will be using the equipment in Earnest next year on the satellites so keep your ears open for "CQ satellite CQ satellite this is M1PAC.

Thanks for reading
73's de M1PAC

Winter WONDER Land

I woke up this morning with the intention of putting the Yaesu G-5500 rotator up to the brackets on the wall .As soon as I opened the door I knew this was going to be Impossible .There was going to be SNOW WAY to erect this wonderful piece of Kit


I am off to hospital on New years eve and I hope to have all my radio equipment installed so for the six to eight weeks I cant drive anywhere I can at least use my Amateur radio gear,there is still time though and with Little help from my friends I am sure I will be able to do it .