Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Twenty First century meeting the nineteenth. FkexRadio & 15m CW. #hamradio #morsecode 020
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Yep. They played like girls. Determined, strong, passionate and sporting. Later in the day, across town, a group of millionaire primo uomo behaved like a bunch of fairies. I however enjoyed true sports(wo)manship 010
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Know who this guy is? He'll be my alter ego in a couple of months.... 100
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thanks to regenerative braking, this one isn't Fast Only Rolling Downhill. #EV #FORD 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Helicopter resupply from ship to shore during Operation Desert Storm 1990-91. The location of the footage is unknown, but we used to get this twice a week when I was stationed at the BBC Broadcasting site on Masirah Island Oman during the conflict. @amprepairservices.bsky.social was there too 100
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026How's this for a blast from the past - and still open! 471
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Well that WAS 4½ litres of home brew wicked strength cider. Thanks to the heat it's undergone a ballistic event... 260
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Jam today; and jam tomorrow... www.space.com/space-explor...space.com'It's quite a bit more than we expected': Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering"As soon as we started doing any operations above Europe, we noticed that there was really something going on there." 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026"Please send help" Crew's distress call after ship hit by US missile. They were floating near the beautiful island of Masirah - once my home for a year -3½ decades ago www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Fruit smoothie Nil. Daughter's Chromebook® One. Despite no official IEC60529 rating, it was only the USB & HDMI sockets that succumbed. A spot of Technical Cleaning and I'll put it back together. 100
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Senior Gammon Mrs Richard Tice having to abandon her immigrant hotel. I wonder if the locals have been painting the roundabouts? 152
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 21/02/2026In a break with tradition, this one is heading outward! #hamradio 030
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Nerd Alert.... www.hamradioworld.org/post/an-enti...hamradioworld.orgAn Entire Year Of SunspotsThis is sunspot dedication. Every day in 2025 (clouds permitting), Warren Spreng of Mason, Ohio, pointed his filtered Seestar 50 telescope at the sun and took a picture. "I then layered each day's ima... 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 30/12/2025Would be dreadful if anyone used this free post address for Reform Scotland to post them very heavy things. Dreadful. 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Quote post with your own dramatic black and white selfie... 010
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 11/11/2025It's amazing what you can find on Vinted. Coats, sweaters, footwear. Oh, and a VHF Diplexer.. 010
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Youngest had an all day Scouting activity between Coventry & Birmingham. I was taxi and it was too far to warrant coming home between trips But perfect for 3 x POTA activations around The City Of Villains.. All QRP CW, natch. #POTA 050
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Reading up on MHSV - the computer does even more. Ham Radio meets Terminator. As for "removing unnecessary steps in the FT8 QSO". Well IMHO that's EVERY step in FT8... 010
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 19/09/2025The doc sent me for some routine blood tests - and you must fast before hand. Earliest appt 2:30pm. I've not eaten for nearly 18 hours. So at 3pm I'm having a cooked breakfast... Desi style 😋 010
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 12/09/2025When your employer is losing £500M a week. And it's been 2 weeks already.... 010
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 05/09/2025A big thanks to SDR-Kits.net for the very reasonably priced TMP plugs - delivered with lightning speed. And thanks to the junk box for some RG-174 with BNC terminations. Just need some peace and quiet to start the fault finding. #hamradio #Yaesu 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 04/09/2025The PA of my 1995 FT-900. The last time this was seen was by a Japanese assembly worker. Output power falling with frequency; but transistors seem intact on a meter test. Now waiting for some Taiko Denki TMP plugs to make test leads. #hamradio #yaesu 050
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 24/08/2025The previous owner obviously used Boggit, Billem & Runne to install the cabinet around the boiler. A large tub of filler and some proper Rawl® Plugs will have it sorted ready for the next tenant. 100
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Another spot of holiday QRP is now QRT. Not bad for 5W and a bit of wire... 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 14/08/2025@amprepairservices.bsky.social Added you to my phone contacts. Found an up to date picture too! 100
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 01/07/2025James O’Brien on LBC Monday “How can people profess to be more offended by an idiot rapper shouting bilge from a stage in Somerset than they are by the continuing carnage in Gaza? An Israeli cabinet member recently called for “every Palestinian man in Gaza to be killed – that is genocide.” 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Only Neil would have the audacity to play a foot pump organ live on stage at Glastonbury. Keep On Rockin' @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 24/06/2025VOA is dead 😢 www.politico.com/news/2025/06...politico.comMajority of staff axed at Voice of AmericaSome affected employees worked for the Persian- language service and were called back to work just last week in light of the Middle East conflict. 110
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 26/05/2025From Saturday's Guardian newspaper. But is it too late to save #bbcworldservice 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 22/05/2025The same duet, 34 years apart. My, how we've grown. #landrover #pridemonth 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 01/05/2025A BELATED HAPPY WORLD LAND ROVER DAY 2025 World Land Rover Day is celebrated annually on April 30th, to commemorate the launch of the original Land Rover Series 1 at the Amsterdam Motor Show in 1948. #landrover #Masirahisland 010
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Longwave is dead? "longwave uses just 4% of the BBC’s analogue output power FM networks consume significantly more energy" 3 longwave Vs 217 FM Vs 416 DAB transmitters radiotoday.co.uk/2025/04/repo...radiotoday.co.ukReport: BBC Longwave broadcasts remain vital amid calls to halt planned switch offAs the BBC prepares to switch off its longwave transmissions in 2025 — marking the end of a century of broadcasting history — a new report is urging a dramatic rethink 100
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Stick your filthy clorinated chicken up your bright orange arse @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social We're protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals act.38degrees.org.uk/act/No-chlor...act.38degrees.org.ukKeir Starmer: Stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade dealsI just signed the campaign calling Keir Starmer to stand firm in protecting British food and animal welfare standards in trade deals 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 27/03/2025@amprepairservices.bsky.social Recognise this hill?? There were a few more masts last time you were there.... 110
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Modest spread to feed the tribe. Eagle eyed followers will spot THE essential Pakistani pickle. 010
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025When your employer insists that your PC locks after 3 mins of inactivity.... MOUSE JIGGLER! 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025@amprepairservices.bsky.social Hope you like the mug. Property of my eldest; now - amongst other things - a qualified dinghy sailing instructor. ....a little late for us tho' 100
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025The second Sunday of Lent is behind us, and I'm making steady progress. Target for Lent 400km Distance So Far just over 160km This year's fundraiser is for Parkinson’s UK. Please donate! www.justgiving.com/page/ivan-or...justgiving.comPaddy's Lent fundraiser for Parkinson’s UKHelp Ivan O'Reilly raise money to support Parkinson’s UK 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 17/02/2025The joy of U13 football training when it's 0°C and you're just the taxi driver #football 000
Paddy G4MAD @g4mad-qrp.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Over 23 years since the System Specification publication by ETSI DRM have finally issued a receiver functionality specification. With HD SDARS & DAB we don't need another digital standard Especially one that's failed to penetrate after 2 decades. DRM?? It Doesn't Really Matter.... rxspec.drm.org 000
