Wgoodf-MM0INH
@wgoodf.bsky.social
Guy who plays with radio and talks a lot of bollocks. Music, science, beer, weather, beer, food, swearing and beer.
See, when i saw this my first thought was Brian Dennehy- pretty much the output of every film and tv studio through the 70s, 80s and into the 90s - he was always somewhere.
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 PM
See, when i saw this my first thought was Brian Dennehy- pretty much the output of every film and tv studio through the 70s, 80s and into the 90s - he was always somewhere.
Managed to snag an old Surface 5 pro from work.
Minimal effort, and I now have a large screen Ubuntu tablet with mag keyboard to turn it into a laptop.
Battery probably isn't great, will run that down to check.
But that aside... huzzah!
Minimal effort, and I now have a large screen Ubuntu tablet with mag keyboard to turn it into a laptop.
Battery probably isn't great, will run that down to check.
But that aside... huzzah!
December 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Managed to snag an old Surface 5 pro from work.
Minimal effort, and I now have a large screen Ubuntu tablet with mag keyboard to turn it into a laptop.
Battery probably isn't great, will run that down to check.
But that aside... huzzah!
Minimal effort, and I now have a large screen Ubuntu tablet with mag keyboard to turn it into a laptop.
Battery probably isn't great, will run that down to check.
But that aside... huzzah!
Home made banana milkshake and a lecture of the positioning of India through the cold war.
Hope your Sunday is going well.
😘
Hope your Sunday is going well.
😘
November 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Home made banana milkshake and a lecture of the positioning of India through the cold war.
Hope your Sunday is going well.
😘
Hope your Sunday is going well.
😘
This is the one. Wife has been using it for a while and seemed to like it. Only day two, seems OK.
Free.. and after you learn how to negotiate the buttons to get passed the adverts, seems grand.
Certainly freeing up my neck and back.
Free.. and after you learn how to negotiate the buttons to get passed the adverts, seems grand.
Certainly freeing up my neck and back.
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is the one. Wife has been using it for a while and seemed to like it. Only day two, seems OK.
Free.. and after you learn how to negotiate the buttons to get passed the adverts, seems grand.
Certainly freeing up my neck and back.
Free.. and after you learn how to negotiate the buttons to get passed the adverts, seems grand.
Certainly freeing up my neck and back.
Spanish.
Nice bit of dystopian horror that.
Cleaner ending than most of a similar ilk.
Nice bit of dystopian horror that.
Cleaner ending than most of a similar ilk.
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Spanish.
Nice bit of dystopian horror that.
Cleaner ending than most of a similar ilk.
Nice bit of dystopian horror that.
Cleaner ending than most of a similar ilk.
I kid you not!
We had just finished dinner.
Gnocchi, since you asked.
Bowl placed to my side, revelling in the tasty sauce and the nutty cheese I placed on top before crisping in the oven.
So crispy.
...and then... and then.. at that exact moment..that very moment, the ice cream van arrived.
We had just finished dinner.
Gnocchi, since you asked.
Bowl placed to my side, revelling in the tasty sauce and the nutty cheese I placed on top before crisping in the oven.
So crispy.
...and then... and then.. at that exact moment..that very moment, the ice cream van arrived.
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I kid you not!
We had just finished dinner.
Gnocchi, since you asked.
Bowl placed to my side, revelling in the tasty sauce and the nutty cheese I placed on top before crisping in the oven.
So crispy.
...and then... and then.. at that exact moment..that very moment, the ice cream van arrived.
We had just finished dinner.
Gnocchi, since you asked.
Bowl placed to my side, revelling in the tasty sauce and the nutty cheese I placed on top before crisping in the oven.
So crispy.
...and then... and then.. at that exact moment..that very moment, the ice cream van arrived.
Not really sure where the day went today; certainly not much radio.
ISS repeater was off, so nowt there; did manage EA, I and OE with the TS-660 and a nice chat with SM5 on 17m- but over all, it was an odd day today... Odd indeed!
Dinner and then settle down for some movies i think.
ISS repeater was off, so nowt there; did manage EA, I and OE with the TS-660 and a nice chat with SM5 on 17m- but over all, it was an odd day today... Odd indeed!
Dinner and then settle down for some movies i think.
November 29, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Not really sure where the day went today; certainly not much radio.
ISS repeater was off, so nowt there; did manage EA, I and OE with the TS-660 and a nice chat with SM5 on 17m- but over all, it was an odd day today... Odd indeed!
Dinner and then settle down for some movies i think.
ISS repeater was off, so nowt there; did manage EA, I and OE with the TS-660 and a nice chat with SM5 on 17m- but over all, it was an odd day today... Odd indeed!
Dinner and then settle down for some movies i think.
I do like a follow up email after a qso.
A pic from the S51 mobile station earlier.
Looks very nice.. better than the shack, for sure.
A pic from the S51 mobile station earlier.
Looks very nice.. better than the shack, for sure.
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I do like a follow up email after a qso.
A pic from the S51 mobile station earlier.
Looks very nice.. better than the shack, for sure.
A pic from the S51 mobile station earlier.
Looks very nice.. better than the shack, for sure.
Waiting for the wife....
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Waiting for the wife....
I hadn't realised how far away that RJ8K Russian station was.
Belogorsk -PO40
Belogorsk -PO40
November 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I hadn't realised how far away that RJ8K Russian station was.
Belogorsk -PO40
Belogorsk -PO40
That's better, a bit of SSB and a couple through ISS.
Always nice to pick up 9K- They can be a bit of a challenge for me sometimes, AC1 as a POTA station and a random PY.
Good blethers with MM0UDI, SM3RDU and OE1DXU.
Job done👍
Better get up town to meet the wife for a dinner and a show.
Huzzah!
Always nice to pick up 9K- They can be a bit of a challenge for me sometimes, AC1 as a POTA station and a random PY.
Good blethers with MM0UDI, SM3RDU and OE1DXU.
Job done👍
Better get up town to meet the wife for a dinner and a show.
Huzzah!
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
That's better, a bit of SSB and a couple through ISS.
Always nice to pick up 9K- They can be a bit of a challenge for me sometimes, AC1 as a POTA station and a random PY.
Good blethers with MM0UDI, SM3RDU and OE1DXU.
Job done👍
Better get up town to meet the wife for a dinner and a show.
Huzzah!
Always nice to pick up 9K- They can be a bit of a challenge for me sometimes, AC1 as a POTA station and a random PY.
Good blethers with MM0UDI, SM3RDU and OE1DXU.
Job done👍
Better get up town to meet the wife for a dinner and a show.
Huzzah!
"His chateau in France" - Is everything you ever needed to know about anybody involved in UKIP or Brexit.
Russian puppet if ever there was.
I remember not throwing anything at him when he was campaigning on the high street around Indy time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russian puppet if ever there was.
I remember not throwing anything at him when he was campaigning on the high street around Indy time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"His chateau in France" - Is everything you ever needed to know about anybody involved in UKIP or Brexit.
Russian puppet if ever there was.
I remember not throwing anything at him when he was campaigning on the high street around Indy time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russian puppet if ever there was.
I remember not throwing anything at him when he was campaigning on the high street around Indy time.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It feel's like it has been ages, since i just sat down and did a bit of SSB - I must try and remedy that tomorrow and Saturday. Last two sessions were contest, which is obvs not the same.
As it is, yesterday a bit of sleepy FT8 and today, also sleepy FT8 between chores.
As it is, yesterday a bit of sleepy FT8 and today, also sleepy FT8 between chores.
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It feel's like it has been ages, since i just sat down and did a bit of SSB - I must try and remedy that tomorrow and Saturday. Last two sessions were contest, which is obvs not the same.
As it is, yesterday a bit of sleepy FT8 and today, also sleepy FT8 between chores.
As it is, yesterday a bit of sleepy FT8 and today, also sleepy FT8 between chores.
You might laugh!
...but you Yanks with your choice of salt or cheese for your 'chips' flavours, cannot appreciate the acidic sweetness that wafts from a big bag of prawn cocktail crips.
...but you Yanks with your choice of salt or cheese for your 'chips' flavours, cannot appreciate the acidic sweetness that wafts from a big bag of prawn cocktail crips.
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You might laugh!
...but you Yanks with your choice of salt or cheese for your 'chips' flavours, cannot appreciate the acidic sweetness that wafts from a big bag of prawn cocktail crips.
...but you Yanks with your choice of salt or cheese for your 'chips' flavours, cannot appreciate the acidic sweetness that wafts from a big bag of prawn cocktail crips.
Braw... Gen Z are doing OK.
November 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Braw... Gen Z are doing OK.
And we are done.
6 movies, 4 Twilight Zone, 3 Charlie's Angels, 2 Cheers and a shit load of Law and Order.
4 lagers, 2 stout, 1 ale, a bag of Haribo, 1 pizza, 2 micro meals, 2 Belgian buns, 2 pot noodle and a big bag of doritos.
Oh aye, and I just managed 100 40m ft8 with the QMX in the end.
Braw
6 movies, 4 Twilight Zone, 3 Charlie's Angels, 2 Cheers and a shit load of Law and Order.
4 lagers, 2 stout, 1 ale, a bag of Haribo, 1 pizza, 2 micro meals, 2 Belgian buns, 2 pot noodle and a big bag of doritos.
Oh aye, and I just managed 100 40m ft8 with the QMX in the end.
Braw
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
And we are done.
6 movies, 4 Twilight Zone, 3 Charlie's Angels, 2 Cheers and a shit load of Law and Order.
4 lagers, 2 stout, 1 ale, a bag of Haribo, 1 pizza, 2 micro meals, 2 Belgian buns, 2 pot noodle and a big bag of doritos.
Oh aye, and I just managed 100 40m ft8 with the QMX in the end.
Braw
6 movies, 4 Twilight Zone, 3 Charlie's Angels, 2 Cheers and a shit load of Law and Order.
4 lagers, 2 stout, 1 ale, a bag of Haribo, 1 pizza, 2 micro meals, 2 Belgian buns, 2 pot noodle and a big bag of doritos.
Oh aye, and I just managed 100 40m ft8 with the QMX in the end.
Braw
Nice, Airport has just started.
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Nice, Airport has just started.
My Sunday is shaping up just fine, hope yours is braw too!
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
My Sunday is shaping up just fine, hope yours is braw too!
Five characters in search of an exit - Twilight Zone.
Like Waiting for Godot, but without any of the intellectual depth.
Still a good episode.
Like Waiting for Godot, but without any of the intellectual depth.
Still a good episode.
November 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Five characters in search of an exit - Twilight Zone.
Like Waiting for Godot, but without any of the intellectual depth.
Still a good episode.
Like Waiting for Godot, but without any of the intellectual depth.
Still a good episode.
The QMX is a fine wee radio, but with the swr protection, it is an absolute pig to match if your antenna is less than perfect.
By the the time you start atu adjustments it goes into safety mode and shuts down.
Quite trying on the patience!
Still when its happy, I am getting out.
When its happy...
By the the time you start atu adjustments it goes into safety mode and shuts down.
Quite trying on the patience!
Still when its happy, I am getting out.
When its happy...
November 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The QMX is a fine wee radio, but with the swr protection, it is an absolute pig to match if your antenna is less than perfect.
By the the time you start atu adjustments it goes into safety mode and shuts down.
Quite trying on the patience!
Still when its happy, I am getting out.
When its happy...
By the the time you start atu adjustments it goes into safety mode and shuts down.
Quite trying on the patience!
Still when its happy, I am getting out.
When its happy...
The long black thing in the corner is the antenna!
Considering the antenna it does get out.. rubbish though.
Too cold to stick the endfed and mast up and drag coax in the door. Perhaps tomorrow.
But.. caravan is very nice indeed!
Considering the antenna it does get out.. rubbish though.
Too cold to stick the endfed and mast up and drag coax in the door. Perhaps tomorrow.
But.. caravan is very nice indeed!
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The long black thing in the corner is the antenna!
Considering the antenna it does get out.. rubbish though.
Too cold to stick the endfed and mast up and drag coax in the door. Perhaps tomorrow.
But.. caravan is very nice indeed!
Considering the antenna it does get out.. rubbish though.
Too cold to stick the endfed and mast up and drag coax in the door. Perhaps tomorrow.
But.. caravan is very nice indeed!