Radio Pirate
@radio-pirates.bsky.social
A "retired" CB and Radio Ham operator getting back to the radio hobby after more than 40 years, dealing with his country bureaucracy to get his Ham license back in a system where the files are "death" and modern records a mirage.
31PT555 on 11 meters DX
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31PT555 on 11 meters DX
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Propagation starting to close on 11 meters... Getting some strong signals from all North Europe, Scandinavia and Scotland 👍
Video is from some Polish operators starting to fade away as QRM increases mid-afternoon...
Ahh, I'm using a crap tuneable short whip in a. weird horizontal position...
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Video is from some Polish operators starting to fade away as QRM increases mid-afternoon...
Ahh, I'm using a crap tuneable short whip in a. weird horizontal position...
🥴
January 4, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Propagation starting to close on 11 meters... Getting some strong signals from all North Europe, Scandinavia and Scotland 👍
Video is from some Polish operators starting to fade away as QRM increases mid-afternoon...
Ahh, I'm using a crap tuneable short whip in a. weird horizontal position...
🥴
Video is from some Polish operators starting to fade away as QRM increases mid-afternoon...
Ahh, I'm using a crap tuneable short whip in a. weird horizontal position...
🥴
15 meters contest... II1WWA copied S9/R5+
Excellent propagation with low clouds here at the Portuguese highlands...
👍📻🎧
Excellent propagation with low clouds here at the Portuguese highlands...
👍📻🎧
January 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
15 meters contest... II1WWA copied S9/R5+
Excellent propagation with low clouds here at the Portuguese highlands...
👍📻🎧
Excellent propagation with low clouds here at the Portuguese highlands...
👍📻🎧
Listening to an 80 meters contest with a USDX+ QRP radio with a few problems still and a crappy Chinese tuneable vertical whip...
S4-S5 on a rainy night at the Portuguese mountains...
#HamRadio #USDX+ #80Meters #HF #BudgetHamRadio
S4-S5 on a rainy night at the Portuguese mountains...
#HamRadio #USDX+ #80Meters #HF #BudgetHamRadio
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Listening to an 80 meters contest with a USDX+ QRP radio with a few problems still and a crappy Chinese tuneable vertical whip...
S4-S5 on a rainy night at the Portuguese mountains...
#HamRadio #USDX+ #80Meters #HF #BudgetHamRadio
S4-S5 on a rainy night at the Portuguese mountains...
#HamRadio #USDX+ #80Meters #HF #BudgetHamRadio
Just made an impulse buying on an SWR meter, same one I use to had 40 years ago. 10/11 meters matcher and 3.5 to 35Mhz SWR with a 10/100W power meter. Mine was a Zetagi model, this one has a different brand and was refurbished... For 23€ with DLS transport.
Was a happy find, let's hope it works...
😏
Was a happy find, let's hope it works...
😏
January 1, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Just made an impulse buying on an SWR meter, same one I use to had 40 years ago. 10/11 meters matcher and 3.5 to 35Mhz SWR with a 10/100W power meter. Mine was a Zetagi model, this one has a different brand and was refurbished... For 23€ with DLS transport.
Was a happy find, let's hope it works...
😏
Was a happy find, let's hope it works...
😏
My 2026 radio plan will be to set up my brand new Sirios GPS 5/8 groud-plane this month and I'm also thinking on installing a full wave dipole for the 10 meters, and also a multi-band wire mainly for receiving, (for now). What I'm curious is what would be best, an end-fed, a half end feed, dipole?
a cartoon character is making a funny face
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January 1, 2026 at 10:10 PM
My 2026 radio plan will be to set up my brand new Sirios GPS 5/8 groud-plane this month and I'm also thinking on installing a full wave dipole for the 10 meters, and also a multi-band wire mainly for receiving, (for now). What I'm curious is what would be best, an end-fed, a half end feed, dipole?
20 Meyers coming strong from a station in Florida-USA... With a CB antenna on a portable...
The thing is that I'm completely blocked for the west side... So, he probably is coming from the East...
Radio propagation magic for sure...
👍
#HamRadio #SW #RadtelRT950Pro
The thing is that I'm completely blocked for the west side... So, he probably is coming from the East...
Radio propagation magic for sure...
👍
#HamRadio #SW #RadtelRT950Pro
January 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM
20 Meyers coming strong from a station in Florida-USA... With a CB antenna on a portable...
The thing is that I'm completely blocked for the west side... So, he probably is coming from the East...
Radio propagation magic for sure...
👍
#HamRadio #SW #RadtelRT950Pro
The thing is that I'm completely blocked for the west side... So, he probably is coming from the East...
Radio propagation magic for sure...
👍
#HamRadio #SW #RadtelRT950Pro
Happy New Year everybody...!
a cartoon drawing of a robot with blue arms and a white head
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January 1, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Happy New Year everybody...!
Once it was the American giant of computers technology. Nowadays the infrastructure lies abandon and will become a ruin just like so many other dead corporations. The clear example of our wasteful capitalist society and our huge waste of resources just to let them rotten when everything fails.
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UNTOUCHED For 8 Years | ABANDONED IBM Complex With EVERYTHING Left Behind
YouTube video by Silent Hills Explorations
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Once it was the American giant of computers technology. Nowadays the infrastructure lies abandon and will become a ruin just like so many other dead corporations. The clear example of our wasteful capitalist society and our huge waste of resources just to let them rotten when everything fails.
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The amazing art of making a band pass filter for RF
Enjoy...
Enjoy...
見えない通信インフラを支えるバンドパスフィルタの製造工程！周波数を選び取る精密部品
YouTube video by THE PROCESS ザ・プロセス
youtu.be
December 30, 2025 at 1:31 AM
The amazing art of making a band pass filter for RF
Enjoy...
Enjoy...
I have being listening to the Shady Band (Eleven'ish Meters) in the mornings and I'm surprised with how strong I copy Sweden,Norway,Germany,France,Scotland,Italy but not Spain that is my neighbor country with a portable and a short coiled antenna. Lets wait for 2026 to set up my 5/8 Vertical and 40W
a kenwood cq dx radio against a blue sky with clouds
ALT: a kenwood cq dx radio against a blue sky with clouds
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December 29, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I have being listening to the Shady Band (Eleven'ish Meters) in the mornings and I'm surprised with how strong I copy Sweden,Norway,Germany,France,Scotland,Italy but not Spain that is my neighbor country with a portable and a short coiled antenna. Lets wait for 2026 to set up my 5/8 Vertical and 40W
5 VHF and 4 UHF repeaters reached from my house balcony with 5Watts with my Radtel RT950 Pro... 90Km, 80Km, 70Km, 50Km and my nearest just on the top of my mountain some 10K line of sight... Not a bad position to try some 2mts DX. West is my only problem for almost all bands I'm blocked by a slope.
a black and white photo of a tower with lightning strikes
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December 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
5 VHF and 4 UHF repeaters reached from my house balcony with 5Watts with my Radtel RT950 Pro... 90Km, 80Km, 70Km, 50Km and my nearest just on the top of my mountain some 10K line of sight... Not a bad position to try some 2mts DX. West is my only problem for almost all bands I'm blocked by a slope.
A great and easy DIY project for a Wideband CMC Choke...
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DIY Wideband CMC Choke Using Steel Wool and RG-213
Build a highly effective, wideband Common-Mode Current CMC choke using steel wool , RG-213 coax and a PVC tube. Learn how this resistive–absorptive choke
vu3dxr.in
December 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A great and easy DIY project for a Wideband CMC Choke...
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A great tutorial by Mike M0MSN for a home-brew 2Meters/40 cmts base antenna...
My next project after installing my 10 meters 5/8 vertical... as I really need a decent VHF/UHF antenna for my QTH
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My next project after installing my 10 meters 5/8 vertical... as I really need a decent VHF/UHF antenna for my QTH
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HAM RADIO: 2M/70cm Skylab Build. Home-Brew 2M antenna 143 - 148 MHz
YouTube video by Mike-M0MSN
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A great tutorial by Mike M0MSN for a home-brew 2Meters/40 cmts base antenna...
My next project after installing my 10 meters 5/8 vertical... as I really need a decent VHF/UHF antenna for my QTH
👍
My next project after installing my 10 meters 5/8 vertical... as I really need a decent VHF/UHF antenna for my QTH
👍
One of the best sites for propagation charts by G7IZU
Very useful to know about the best time of the day for listening or transmitting on every band...
Here:
Very useful to know about the best time of the day for listening or transmitting on every band...
Here:
G7IZU Radio Reflection Detection: Live Space Weather & Propagation
Track live radio propagation via meteor showers, aurora, and Sporadic E from Andy Smith (G7IZU)'s amateur radio astronomy station in Plymouth, UK.
www.tvcomm.co.uk
December 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
One of the best sites for propagation charts by G7IZU
Very useful to know about the best time of the day for listening or transmitting on every band...
Here:
Very useful to know about the best time of the day for listening or transmitting on every band...
Here:
A great tutorial by PU1OWL to solve the wrong SWR measurement problems across the several bands, on the cheap Chinese ATU-100...
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Improving your ATU100
YouTube video by PU1OWL Brazilian Ham Radio
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A great tutorial by PU1OWL to solve the wrong SWR measurement problems across the several bands, on the cheap Chinese ATU-100...
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Merry Christmas Everybody...!
December 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Merry Christmas Everybody...!
If one day I win the lottery this will be my dream radio to buy on day one after having the money on my bank account... 😏
I would prefer the Screen version though... 👌
Aurora AU-520M with polar modulation...
Simply the ultimate radio for DX operations...!
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I simply love it...
😍
I would prefer the Screen version though... 👌
Aurora AU-520M with polar modulation...
Simply the ultimate radio for DX operations...!
👍
I simply love it...
😍
Flex Aurora Series: The Ultimate 500W Radio?
YouTube video by ML&S Martin Lynch and Sons
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
If one day I win the lottery this will be my dream radio to buy on day one after having the money on my bank account... 😏
I would prefer the Screen version though... 👌
Aurora AU-520M with polar modulation...
Simply the ultimate radio for DX operations...!
👍
I simply love it...
😍
I would prefer the Screen version though... 👌
Aurora AU-520M with polar modulation...
Simply the ultimate radio for DX operations...!
👍
I simply love it...
😍
Video from the live transmission of the annual Christmas message transmitted by the SAQ Grimeton VLF transmitter on 17.2 kHz CW today...
The oldest VLF transmitter still working in the world shows how 100 years ago people use to communicate worldwide
"Just" electric motors generating radio waves!
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The oldest VLF transmitter still working in the world shows how 100 years ago people use to communicate worldwide
"Just" electric motors generating radio waves!
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Christmas Eve morning Dec24th 2025 SAQ Grimeton VLF transmitter - 07:20 UTC
YouTube video by Alexander SAQ Grimeton Friendship Association
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Video from the live transmission of the annual Christmas message transmitted by the SAQ Grimeton VLF transmitter on 17.2 kHz CW today...
The oldest VLF transmitter still working in the world shows how 100 years ago people use to communicate worldwide
"Just" electric motors generating radio waves!
🎄
The oldest VLF transmitter still working in the world shows how 100 years ago people use to communicate worldwide
"Just" electric motors generating radio waves!
🎄