Hi all, not been /m much the last 2 months or so, mainly due to me changing cars. I now have a Skoda Octavia and its taken me a while to get the antenna mounted due to weather.

Derek, G3WHK kindly offered to help fix the mount onto the car and showed me a better way of running the feeder and earthing.

Firstly we had to use my smaller mount, however I only use a discreet dual band whip when on the move so no issue there. I had covered the hatch in Ventureshield to help protect against scratches, I also had some braid to hand.

Once the mount was fixed we ran a braid from a bolt on the hatch to the antenna mount using a crimp connector. I have painted the fixings and bolt again to make it look neat.

We ran an earth from a seat fixing to the body of the radio plus put around 5 or 6 turns on the feeder.

No issues on the SWR, better on 6M in fact and like nothing on 2M and 70cms. HF needs tweaking but useable via ATU. When its warmer I need to visit the park and tune them up.

BOV mobil off air

The BOV mobil is off the air as I picked up my new car yesterday, most of the gear is in the car now, I need to fix the speaker, attached the aerial mount and SWR in the antennas. Will provide updates soon.

Selling Car

Selling the Mazda soon, so need to unplug all the kit ready for the new motor.

Faulty aerial cable

Noticed NS was rather weak the last few days. So checked my feeder and found it open circuit, so ordered replacement from W&S, thatw as also faulty! Anyway, ended up repairing both!

Visited The Ridge today for a session in the hot sunshine, worked the following:

SCRS Net Regulars on 80M and then 2M

M0TTB
M0KFJ
2E0EKF
M0YOU apols to you, my battery died mid QSO!

Has a trip to Newlands Corner last Sat, nice hot dog from their cafe but coverage was pretty rubbish on vhf/uhf. 80M was ok though. John 2E0MOC was also in attendance.

Hi all, some photos from a session at High Clandon early in the new year. It was -4C and I spent most of the time on 80M with some weird "long range" groundwave prop.
I also had a long chat with Martin M1MRB and he was /m on Epsom Downs running his MKRS80 80M kit radio.