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AMSAT-DL @amsat-dl.org · 25/09/2026

It's official now! Our three ERMINAZ-2U, -2V and -2X PocketQubes are set for launch 18:18 UTC (20:18 CEST) on October 01 with Transporter-18! #AMSAT #hamradio

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Great 🛰️RS-44 pass this evening. Worked AJ #WO3U for the first time 🌐FN00 and Jerry #W8LR 🌐EM67/68. Two new grids in the log, thanks gentlemen 🤝 #AMSAT

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Thanks for sharing Kris. It's had over 500 views already. I'll be available to sign autographs at the AMSAT-UK colloquium next month 😁

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pleasure to meet you this morning, looking forward to the next time.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

On my way, Clacton.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It just annoys me; I proof read a few times and still mistakes get through.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I screwed up when I typed up my log. Mistyped Gareth's callsign

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

So sorry Gareth, I logged you on paper correctly but I screwed up your callsign with my sh💩t typing. Hope I wasn't your only IO90 QSO. Every month I manage to screw up, I also had two more busted QSOs. One broken call and one incorrect RX report. Dropped two grids (yours and one of the others) 🤬

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Good fun on 6m SSB this afternoon: EA, F, I, 4O, 9A, YT, E7 all in the log

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I worked southern Chile on 5W SSB 10m a couple of autumns ago with mine.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

That's exactly what I am running on 6m. I've got one for 10m on another pole too. 6m on the left, 10m on the right. Top of each is approx 9m above ground.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I knew about the conjunction and am kicking myself for not taking the DSLR with me to get some better quality pictures. I thought it made a nice scene with the antenna and planets together.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Back up where they belong first thing this morning 😀

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Glad I took my 10m and 6m T2LT antennas down this morning. The wind has been horrendous today. Mean winds locally Force 6, gusting to gale force.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

My FlightAware is currently running with a 2m/70cm rubber duck on the RTL3 SDR. I plan to build a CoCo antenna in the summer. Still, I get reasonable range with it in a west facing window with a wholly inappropriate antenna at the moment 😁

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This weekend, I monitored 3 passes of the UMKA-1 (RS40S) cubesat which has been transmitting SSTV images of children’s drawings under the “Umka from Space” program. It has a strong downlink on 437.625MHz, so it is easy to receive clean images with a 7 element Yagi antenna. r4uab.ru/2026/05/01/0...

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I've doubled my power now, woo! I don't think there's any point going to the high power category until I improve rx with a preamp. I worked pretty much everyone I could hear. Still leaping out of the car to turn the antenna. I occasionally look out for cheap tv aerial rotator but no luck yet.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Conditions weren't that great for the April RSGB 432MHz UKAC contest last night. Worked a few new stations and plenty of familiar callsigns too. Nice to get Gareth @g0mfr.bsky.social in the log too. Best score this year so hopefully I'll move up one or two places on the leaderboard.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Very happy to receive my satellite DXCC certificate 🛰💯📃 from the ARRL today. Thanks to all the operators around the world for the QSOs that made this possible. #AMSAT

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Grab his leash and take him for a walk - that should build his apetite! 🤣

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Hello Dale. Yeah, AO-123 is a great satellite. Very easy to work at low elevation. I think everyone on that pass worked everyone else. Not like the chaos you find on SO-50

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Wordle 1,743 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

FT817 with an upgraded mic. I replaced the MH-31 fist mic innards with a SotaBeams voice keyer which has an electret capsule instead of the standard dynamic. I think I also had the SotaBeams compressor switched in (normally I switch it out for FM sats). Gives nice bright, punchy audio.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

@wgoodf.bsky.social called you a couple of times on SO-50 this evening.. no reply :( I have said something to upset you Dale? 🤣

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

XU7AMO being active on 🛰️QO-100 has motivated me to clear out my shed so I can get active on QO-100 again 🏘️📡 I haven't beein regularly active on QO-100 for 18 months so I was pleased all the gear still works 100% and got a nice easy QSO for my first contact with Cambodia.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

#SSTV image received from cubesat 🛰️QMR-KWT-2 on February 25th to mark Kuwait National Day and confirmation certificate. 🖼️SSTV postcards from Kuwait continues via 🛰️QMR-KWT-2 through the weekend. ⬇️436.950 MHz FM 📳Robot 36 #SSTV #QMRKWT2 #Kuwait_National_Day #KuwaitLiberationDay #orbitalspace

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It's always fun working DX via satellite. Joe (KE9AJ) is on the Florida Atlantic coast and we worked via AO-7 last night. 4245 miles separated us and AO-7 was sounding great considering it's been in orbit over 51 years.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Nice to be able to find time to work a couple of amateur radio satellites 🛰️ this afternoon.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I spent a lot of time beaming more or less north, as well as NE and NW. If I heard something off the side of the beam, I'd get out and turn the antenna but didn't hear anyone in IO70,71,80,82,JO01 or 02

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Conditions on 70cm were not great tonight. I only managed 22 QSOs in total in the RSGB 432MHz UKAC contest. I was glad to get G1ZAR/P in the Peak District (best DX 281km) and Jacques F1BHL. I also heard GD8EXI in the Isle of Man but couldn't work him on 5W.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I put my Dwarf 3 on M33 The Triangulum Galaxy for about 80 minutes this evening and also managed to catch near-Earth Asteroid 433 Eros (the white line to the left of M33) which was a nice bonus.

M33 The Triangulum Galaxy and also near-Earth Asteroid 433 Eros (white line to the left of the galaxy)

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

A couple of images from last night's imaging session with the Dwarf 3: The California Nebula (NGC 1499) and Thor's Helmet (NGC 2359).

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

A few more images from the Dwarf 3 from last night.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I went for the Dwarf3 after watching lots of content online over the last 2 or 3 weeks. I think Orion Nebula and Horse Head+Flame will be my first deep sky targets. This is M42 taken with my 6" Newtonian and Canon 600D about 6 years ago. My first and only attempt on this object to date.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Cool.. looks just like what I need, especially in the winter months. Sadly, I won't be out next week for the 70cm UKAC... too much going on at school in the run up to the end of term.

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

and to top it off, I've only just sat down to eat. Good luck out there Gareth!

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𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 @M5JFS 📡🛰️🔭🌌 @m5jfs.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

It's peeing with rain, I've got a ton of work to do and I don't fancy a late night to catch up on the work after the contest. So sadly, I'm gonna give it a miss tonight. Shame because I was looking forward to using the FT847 on 70cm for the first time. ☹️

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