m0blfarticles

• World War Two RAF Radio Equipment Instructions and Manuals
  My late grandfather was a radio engineer for Britain's Royal Air Force during the Second World War. I am now in possession of his notes from when he was studying for the job. (Index). If you want a copy of these notes, just email me. I hope to add some pages in PDF format over the summer 2003, if they can scan correctly (RAF-issue blue fountain pen ink on sixty-year old parchment is difficult to scan!).
• Special Event Station GB0DHS: Devonport High School for Boys
  A special event station I set up at my school in July 1999. How it worked and all the problems I faced - Recommended reading for anybody else planning a similar activity. (272kB .pdf file)
• Eclipse August 1999
  Results of my investigations into how the total solar eclipse in Europe of 11th August 1999 affected long-distance medium wave transmissions. (26kB .pdf file)
• QSL-ing for beginners
  How to send and receive QSL cards in Britain and why you might want to do it! (10kB .pdf file)
• Early research into 'Lifts' (Tropospheric Ducts)
  Research from the 1940's into Tropospheric Ducts, which enhance propagation at Very High Frequencies. Most of this is now known to be correct and this article provides a good introduction for beginners into the basic concepts. (2kB HTML file with 24kB HTML download required to reach the main article)
• Find out about and hear recent examples of 'Lifts' in the VHF FM Radio Broadcast Band
  ( 6kB HTML page with several RealAudio examples)
• VHF Operating in France
  Recommendations for British amateurs going to use their CEPT licenses in France with some details of French repeaters and the different band-plans in use there. (27kB .pdf file)

Archives

• A hommage to the Mir Space Station and its Amateur Radio Station: R0MIR
  So, MIR has finally returned to Earth. But you can remember the Space Station by listening to a short audio clip recorded by me in 1998 from the MIR Amateur Radio Station, R0MIR, on board man's first home in space.
  (Streaming RealAudio File.)
• Contacting D68C
  All the contacts I made with the D68C DX-pedition to the Comoros Islands in February 2001.
• REF Contest 2001
  A summary of the rules an a summary of my results from the French Contest ('Championnat de France')

Contest Results

• M0BLF/P - Championnat de France 2001 (61kB .pdf file)

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