G1VVP - Skegness DX

This noise destroys the MW band here. I thought I knew roughly where it was coming from, but it seems to be 'everywhere' !! I t...

I like conifer trees, but when they interfere with my hobby, they have to go! Once again, the neighbour's conifer tree overhangs my ga...

My marriage came to an end almost two months ago. My second failed marriage in fact! (I must be doing something wrong!) This resulted in me ...

Hull's "City Of Culture 2017" fireworks display, entitled "THE BIG BANG"! To bring in the 2016 new year, Jane ...

The SkywavesDX Forum is back online. Wondering why it went down? Read below to find out. The SkywavesDX phpBB forum has been in oper...

I've been taking a few days away from radio while things settle at home. A family member has moved in with us and so access to the...

Making an early start this year. A  new coax and a new flag is going up in the front garden. There are a few things I would like to experi...

The word which comes to mind here is "concerned", but I would have said the same thing had we voted to stay in the EU.  I do...

Some years ago, a good friend told me that all web hosting companies are, more or less, exactly the same. The message he was putting across ...

While at the new Gibraltar Point Visitor Centre this afternoon, I took a few photos out over The Wash from the viewing platform. The platfor...

Almost!

We didn't have a single flake of snow over winter, but we've been having snow showers for the last few days in Skegness. The shower ...

Time to get the tree cutting equipment out again. That enormous conifer on the neighbour's garden continues to eat my Körner 9.2 antenna...

I have been wondering whether to make this post as I know it will probably come across in the wrong way, but here are a couple of things I h...

After much disappointment concerning the reliability of my current hosting company, Dataflame, I am just about to start on the process of mi...

A few weeks ago I abandoned DXing the medium waves from home as there was some interference, not hugely strong, but strong enough to bury al...

A pulsating, growling din now resides over most of the medium wave band here. It started a few weeks ago, masking most of the upper pa...

Here in Skegness, the sporadic E season didn't get going until mid June. Openings had mostly been sparse, with poor signals and very muc...

A spectacular sunset from a few days ago. I thought I would upload them here for posterity. No filtering or processing was done, other than...