Another Sunday and another Ham Radio Social with 2E0LKA – Sri, M0CJM – Neil, Tiago M7### (awaiting call) and myself M0NRG Nigel. This time we decided to meet up at Sri and Neil’s neck of the woods just outside Basingstoke near the village of Ellisfield. The morning consisted of the usual good company, conversation, radio and of course breckie.. Even though the sun was out it was still a chilly morning with a northerly wind blowing, fortunately a large hedgerow afforded us some shelter from the wind. After a coffee we focused on getting the antenna and radio setup.
Todays weapon of choice was the Tactical Delta Loop antenna (CHA TDL) from Chameleon and Neil’s Yaesu FT991a connected using POTA-FLEX 7 Messi & Paoloni Coax Cable, if you have never used POTA Flex it is very light weight and ideal for hanging off of a portable mast. The antenna tuned up successfully on all of the bands that we tried using the FT991a internal tuner. We all had a few contacts on HF also allowing Tiago to have some QSO’s under our supervision.
Today I also wanted to play with some other tech consisting of a DJI Mini 4 Pro Drone, a DJI OSMO 7 Gimbal and DJI Mini microphones. All didn’t go to plan with some lessons learned but I did manage to put a small video together with some of the captured footage. In a nutshell a schoolboy error meant that the audio that was being recorded was from the phone microphone and not the DJI Mini microphone. I will confess that the radio audio that is overlayed in the drone footage was added afterwards as the original audio was not really usable.
Still everyday is a school day…………..
If you fancy joining us please leave a message on the contacts page or email me nigel@m0nrg.co.uk
Looking forward to the next one..