Welcome

Welcome to the website of radio amateur G4ILO in Cockermouth, NW England.

This is a picture of my radio shack. My main transceiver is an Elecraft K3 (S/N 222), powered by a Diamond GSV3000 power supply. Above it you can see my Elecraft K2 (S/N 392) with home-made power supply in a matching enclosure. To the right of that is the control unit for my MFJ 40m-15m magnetic loop, which is in the attic directly above. I am not able to have outside antennas at this QTH so I operate a stealth amateur radio station.

I hope that these pages will provide ideas and encouragement to others who are only able to use low power with restricted antennas. There are plenty of ways to have fun with radio that don't involve high power and beam antennas. In fact, I think QRP (low power) is more fun! If you enjoyed the site, please leave a message in the log (guestbook). I really like reading your comments. Thank you!

Put a propagation panel on your website

Do you have a ham radio website? Would you like to show visitors to your site the latest propagation conditions? Well, now you can.

WebProp is a little web application that will display the latest solar data and propagation forecast from WWV, together with an indicator of propagation conditions. Just cut and paste a few lines of code. Find out more.

Directory of ham websites

Do you often get frustrated when you remember seeing an interesting radio website and can't find it again? To try to solve this problem I created Ham-Directory.com. It's a directory of all the most useful ham radio websites I have found. But to make it more useful still, I'd like you to add your favourite websites as well.

If you have a home page devoted to amateur radio, or know of a page that is particularly useful - I'm thinking particularly of pages with antenna designs and circuits that are hard to find using ordinary search engines - then visit Ham-Directory.com and submit the details. If not, why not just take a look at what's already there?

Please add your favourite ham radio websites to my directory, and help create a really useful ham radio resource. Thanks!

Who can you trust?

Most of us know someone who has had their personal details "phished" or who have received spyware or a virus after visiting a rogue website. Internet security firm Comodo recently launched a scheme called UserTrust that allows site visitors to review and rate sites to let others know what they think. You can see it in action on my business website Tech-Pro.net. Just click the site seal below the navigation links on the left.

A site needs five ratings from registered users before they show up. Hopefully you would trust a site run by a fellow ham, so I'd appreciate it if you could spare a minute or two to rate my site. I think UserTrust is a great idea, but it will only be really useful if it becomes widely used and people recognize it, so please spread the word and encourage other webmasters to use UserTrust on their sites.

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