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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not remotely jealous at all in any way shape or form.🤢 Have a great time with it!

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have plenty if you need some….

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mine came to Belfast yesterday…

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Totally agree. I would absolutely buy one and put up a yagi.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A few minutes later I worked Sam, OM4ASM, who told me he was 16. I was able to tell him I was the same age, just with the numbers swapped ‘round…

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I had a lovely chatty ssb qso on 20m today with Giorgio, IV3EPO, in Northern Italy, where it was 30 deg Celsius. He told me he was jealous of Belfast’s gloomy and rainy 16 deg! There’s a first time for everything I suppose…

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Lovely John Murray has aged pretty well to be fair, he’d be a 60s model with major modifications when he had to work alongside me in the BBC Radio Cleveland newsroom in the early 1990s…

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I shall enjoy imagining them above the ten tenths cloud…

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well cheers for that, Belfast. Top eclipse work there.

An extremely cloudy sky destroys the chance for people in Belfast to witness a once in a lifetime event

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Two hours to 93% solar eclipse. Cloud cover in Belfast. Ten tenths. It’s little wonder some of the original astronomers at Armagh Observatory went mad.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Still fairly new to this POTA lark, but that’s a nice wee milestone. Getting out of the shack really does transform your experience and bring welcome levels of fun.

Certificate for passing 100 parks hunted on air.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Well that was nice. Put out a slightly-nervous “listening through” on GB3VM (2m FM) this morning and got a proper welcome from the locals. Great chats and craic. And it isn’t even a 145 Alive weekend. Imagine!

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

On holiday in G-land. Went up Titterstone Clee in Shropshire today and had some pota fun on 20m. Proper holiday activity.

Map of contacts from Shropshire - across Europe and over to USA.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It would have to be a last resort. Then again (drumroll please) We do have a few clowns in this hobby. (Quick, sign here for this joke and help me on with this red nose)

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Kevin Malone's Hilarious Drum Solo: Ba Dum Tss!

ALT: Kevin Malone's Hilarious Drum Solo: Ba Dum Tss!

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

And for our non-betting brethren? 😇 2, then 1.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

At times I have done all of those!

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Duh. Just turned it all off. So silly me, too. Still, a thoroughly pointless and inaccurate service they’re offering. And irritatingly, presented in the idiom of a very different form of English to mine.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The security camera company is desperate to sell me AI services. Won’t be happening. I’ve been on an unwanted “free trial” for ages. It keeps flagging up “Unusual Activity”. This consists of my wife and me going into and out of our house and getting in and out of our cars. Silly company.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 07/07/2026

Everyone in Europe please try and keep the noise down, Belgium has a hangover.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Hey welcome and congratulations. There are many many of us out there still experimenting and innovating and pushing the boundaries of what you can do with the technology. You will have a blast

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’ll do a bit of work then. See if they’re any better on Monday morning. 🙂

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Frankly, I am amazed you stood for that…

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

No worries. He and I are rather used to it by now.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Had a slow start operating GB1500M yesterday, but a lively 90 min pileup on 40m last thing. Many ops, bands, modes in the UK home nations this week. Folk sad at ending broadcasting from 198LW - far more wondering when all that broadcast engineering expertise might be needed again… #amateurradio

Description of the shutting down of Long Wave broadcasting in the UK at oh 100 British summertime this coming Saturday.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I know! I wasn’t on R4 very often but the odd news story went big and there I was. Details on being a part of it here… rsgb.org/main/radio-s...

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GB1500M Activator Instructions - Radio Society of Great Britain - Main Site : Radio Society of Great Britain – Main Site

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Poor you! Didn’t get the only GI operator! 😜 They’ll be on all week….

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Calling CQ with GB1500M on 7.189 SSB - marking the imminent end of 198LW transmission in the UK.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

USA V Australia. I love how every time the US tv director shows us celebs in hospitality the BBC commentators go totally silent. Because they, like us, haven’t a clue who any of them are.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If you are anywhere in the UK having a bit of a warm spell, I just want you to know that in Northern Ireland we are having constant torrential rain, and although is keeping the streets empty, it is rather getting us all a bit down.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Loving the Curaçao national anthem for the sheer unending nature of it.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I have to confess I saw that and just went out and checked mine

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Tried again today - worked a few brave folk as we all grimaced our ways through the intense qsb. Ho hum.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Few ssb qsos on 20m and 40m this morning but it was hard work for all of us. Golly those bands are noisy in this part of Western Europe. Thank you to everyone who persevered with my requests for repeated information. Will, GI6HKE

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

We’ve got our own marches today. And we have some form, as you know.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

“Reads. Mutters. Cuts grass before it rains in an hour. Decides to watch Cup Final. Regrets it.”

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Enjoying coverage of a quite amazing Northern Irish Road Racing event - the North West 200. Upwards of 200mph on closed public roads. Respect to my RAYNET colleague providing secure emergency comms. You can watch free here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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North West 200 - North West 200 Live - Saturday Racing

Watch live coverage of the 2026 North West 200 at the famous triangle circuit on the north coast of Northern Ireland.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Forgive me a weak attempt at a joke…

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Oops. I did know. I should have said “This means nothing to me” - part of the song’s lyrics.

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Martin Rosenbaum @mrosenbaum.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I'm quoted in this: “There are important underlying issues about how the civil service is managed and how public money is spent. They should release the information instead of trying to evade disclosure by hiding behind unjustified claims about personal data."

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

That was a hopelessly slow start this morning. I really have got to stop sitting up half the night listening to space travellers.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Meanwhile the Storm Dave prequel is wick.

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Will Leitch GI6HKE @willleitch.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

You join the ranks of those who are more pleased with that than the new kitchen.

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