Hello Everyone.
Hope you are all good and playing radio. You might know I have been trying to make a more professional looking Yagi compared with my first one , which was a little heath Robinson one hot glue chock blocks and of course blue tack LOL.
With a little 3D printing and Stainless steel nuts and bolts. With 6mm Aluminium tubing. I finally done it.
It fits on my little Rotator and I made a Handle for Pedestrian Mobile.   
Enjoy and any questions please don't Hesitate .




Best 73's John 26CT4515 On his little Hill.

   

Hi Jacky
It was great to hear from you across the little pond LOL. Let us Know when you are trying again with the SSTV I would love to see if it works. Hope to speak to you soon .
Best 73's  John 26CT4514 

Hello 😜

One of my radio passions is to décode and hunting weather high altitude balloons.

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Best 73 🇲🇫

Hello 😜

For those who are interested with SSTV with a portable radio and ANDROID application SSTV ENCODER here is the cable i use :


https://a.aliexpress.com/_EJ0XqFk

To encode SSTV on smartphone or ANDROID tab : free app " SSTV ENCODER "

To decode SSTV : Free ANDROID app " ROBOT 36 "

Best 73 from Granville Normandy 🇲🇫

Hello & welcome

Here is my report for the net held on Thursday 9th of July 2026

My location for the net was a hot, sticky Radio Corner, Ashdown 🌴 Forest in the county of East Sussex and my working conditions were the old Anytone AT-6666 powered by a car battery 🔋 and a Solarcon A99 antenna.

The net is scheduled to start at 20:30 🕣 and finish anytime from 23:00 🕚 onwards UK time and is held on 27.395 MHz LSB or channel 39 LSB on the CEPT/FCC allocation

In no particular order, here is my list of check ins and who heard and or heard who.
All stations are 26 division unless otherwise stated

NB 101 - Dave - Edenbridge - Kent 🥇
Dusty Bin - Dan - Ashdown 🌴 Forest - East Sussex
KP 441 - Steve - IO-90-TV
Craig - IO-90-TV - Shotgun with Steve
CT 1074 - Mike - Brighton - East Sussex
CT 4515 - John - Somewhere on Ashdown 🌴 Forest but not Radio Corner - East Sussex
Tango 187 - With John and Mika 🐶, K9 security 🚨 for Radio Corner
FB 228 - Martin H - Hellingly - East Sussex
CW 443 - Kris - Upper Beeding - West Sussex
CT 4952 - Julian - Brighton - East Sussex - Making good use of the Burgess Hill SDR
CT 5363 - Shaggy - Ashdown 🌴 Forest - East Sussex
GE 167 - Murphy - Eastbourne - East Sussex
C V M - Nigel - Crowborough - East Sussex
XR 41 - Jerry - Hailsham - East Sussex
CT 940 - Richard - Reigate Hill - Surrey
Dragon Slayer 1 - Prue - Reigate Hill - Surrey - Shotgun with Richard
CT 3466 - "Radar" Ray - Crowhurst - Surrey
CT 4013 - Tony - Brighton - East Sussex
LT 141 - Lee - Wandsworth - Southwest London
and me
CI 2290 - Ray - Ashdown 🌴 Forest - East Sussex - In the Chair 💺

The band conditions were strange, with stations reporting a reduction in signal strength but no change in audio quality. Was/has there been a solar flare?

Thank you all who took time to called in or read this. Sorry if you tried and wasn't heard, feel free to give it a go on another occasion.

Now for the Numbers of the Night

0 Coffee's drunk
1 London borough worked
20 in the log
4 Counties worked
0 Biscuits eaten

That brings my report to an end

Best 73

Ray 2290 with paper and pen 📝

It was my pleasure to have more time with you also for your wife & Son to say hello to me.
It was very interesting to hear of your jobs & life, also that you made contact with some more UK operators.

As you are returning to Granville tomorrow I guess we will not have another chance to chat for some time on PMR, but maybe on 11M sometime.

Many thanks for the QSO's this week & I look forward to our next.

Best regards & 73,
Tony

ps. I spoke to Ray (26CT2290) on his 11M net and he had noticed all your spots on Cluster446 so he was aware of the Ch14PMR activity so I didn't have to tell him.

Many thanks Tony for this QSO tonight !!!
The signal was too weak for SSTV but really good for voice.

Best 73 😜🇲🇫

Hello Tony

Approximately 19h00 UTC or 20h00 UTC

73 🇲🇫

Quote from: 14FRS119 Jacky on Jul 09, 2026, 12:42 PMHello 😜

If the propagation is always OK tonight, i will send SSTV pictures on PMR 14 and / or 7.

Best 73

Hi Jacky, do you know the approximate time (UTC) if you will try?

Best 73,Tony

I will use the ANDROID application SSTV ENCODER on my ANYTONE AT878UV.

If you don't have anything to decode SSTV, you can download ROBOT 36 for ANDROID on you smartphone or tab.

73 🇲🇫