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	<title>MØMCX</title>
	<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk</link>
	<description>Amateur Radio Operator</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>ToolFellows, my cool new Handyman service</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/09/16/toolfellows-my-cool-new-handyman-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/09/16/toolfellows-my-cool-new-handyman-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Never one to stand still, I&#8217;ve created a new business called Tool Fellows Ltd. See it in action here:
TEST
http://www.toolfellows.co.uk/
 

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		<title>2010 Harley Fat Boy - My first review</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/06/27/2010-harley-fat-boy-my-first-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/06/27/2010-harley-fat-boy-my-first-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, I managed to clear my diary and take my 2010 Fat Boy out for  a decent run. Since taking collection about a month ago, I&#8217;ve been  restricted to half an hour here and half an hour there.
Yesterday, the hottest day of the year so far (and boy,  didn’t I know it) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harley Fat Boy Stage One Vance Hines Big Radius - bike pulls to left?</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/05/24/fat-boy-stage-one-vance-hines-big-radius-bike-pulls-to-left/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/05/24/fat-boy-stage-one-vance-hines-big-radius-bike-pulls-to-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 21:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had loads of  biggish bikes over the years and most of them  never run true due to shot head gear and bearings etc. Finally, I get my  newish Fat Boy but there&#8217;s a distinct drift to the left which has  annoyed me.
I just realised that the stock exhausts are quite  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harley Fat Boy FLSTF</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/05/18/harley-fat-boy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/05/18/harley-fat-boy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 08:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>FatBoy</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just taken delivery of my Harley Fat Boy. I couldn&#8217;t work out what the letters meant but I finally worked it out.
Example customised Fat Boy below:


What does FLSTF mean?
F is the engine indicator; an overhead valve engin, 74, 80, or 88  cubic inch. 88 cubic inch engine is  standard for newer models
L [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Online Handbook circa 1984</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/04/13/the-online-handbook-circa-1984/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/04/13/the-online-handbook-circa-1984/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In about 1984, I bought a book called &#8220;The Online Handbook&#8221;. The book showed me that there was a dark and strange world out there inside computers that connected to phone systems all over the world. I was given a 300 baud modem and used to log into these strange computer systems in the middle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The M0XXT Mega-Loop antenna - VHF gain for the HF bands</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/21/xxt-mega-loop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/21/xxt-mega-loop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many people ask me what our HF antenna is. It&#8217;s just a delta loop antenna (triangle) made from 2mm wire at about 58m per leg (174m perimeter) with a height above ground of around 60 to 80 feet (depending on tension) fed with coax to a 4:1 balun at the feedpoint in one corner. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power Over Ethernet - Buffalo G54 - WiFi Antenna</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/21/power-over-ethernet-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/21/power-over-ethernet-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found my old article recently regarding my home-brew Power Over Ethernet Project. James and will shortly be putting internet at the Scout Hut around one mile away and having my router as close to the antennas as possible will be mandatory. Here&#8217;s an old project that I wrote up in 2009:
Using very high quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts Exchange Technical Support Rip-Off Scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/14/experts-exchange-rip-off-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/14/experts-exchange-rip-off-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last couple of years, I have enjoyed contributing from time to time to Experts Exchange. I have built up a 38 &#8220;answer&#8221; lead. That&#8217;s 38 questions that have been accepted as the right answer. Let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s only half that, 19 questions. I have got 19 people out the shit and back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to make a loop antenna for 40m and 80m bands</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/11/sg-230-feeding-60m-skyloop-deltaloop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/11/sg-230-feeding-60m-skyloop-deltaloop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been an addict of full wave (and partial wave) loops since realising many years ago that in comparison to a dipole, you get more bang for your buck if you build a loop - certainly you get more copper in the air - and loops are resonant on EVERY harmonic so a 40m loop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Footnote: 40m and 80m skyloops for your back garden</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/08/40m-and-80m-loop-antenna-for-your-back-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/08/40m-and-80m-loop-antenna-for-your-back-garden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You may have a smallish backgarden like me; 10m deep and 14m wide. Your 40m loop (that&#8217;s really 40m [or so] all the way around) will resonate on the 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands. Mine is only about 20 feet off the ground, around gutter height. Its not quite square but the far side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microham MK2R+ Installation</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/08/microham-mk2r-installation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/08/microham-mk2r-installation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pleased to report that James (M0YOM) has successfully installed our Microham MK2R+ recently. This means that we can now use the FT1000MP *and* the TS2000 at the same time, ideal for SO2R.
This means that whilst I’m CQ on 40m band, I might be listening up on 20m, waiting for the band to open. Just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CQ WPX 2010 Amateur Radio Film</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/08/cq-wpx-2010-amateur-radio-film/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2011/03/08/cq-wpx-2010-amateur-radio-film/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to doing the final edit for the CQ WPX Radiosport Contest. Please don&#8217;t take the film too seriously, I was really poking fun at us! However it turned out quite pleasant in the end although the title sequence at the end is a bit of an overkill :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfLKrkO-dkM

Give it a peek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>160m RSGB Club Calls Contest 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/11/15/160m-rsgb-club-calls-contest-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/11/15/160m-rsgb-club-calls-contest-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One mistake (apart from entering) was going S02R for a few moments and sliding up on the 2nd VFO to the fellow on 1950. I carried on CQing until my off times coincided with his off times before giving him a blast. Woops! I bluffed my through the contact since he took rather a long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Yaesu Radio: FTdx5000MP</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/11/05/new-yaesu-radio-ftdx5000mp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/11/05/new-yaesu-radio-ftdx5000mp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s here, the new FTdx5000MP rig, spotted as an advertisement in QST this morning in the USA.
This author will be very interested to see the specs and look at the costings. Clearly, it&#8217;ll be fitting in betwen the FT2000 and the FT9000 series, but exactly where is anyone&#8217;s guess. 4 antenna jacks and a Class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>40m Vertical Parasitic Array Antenna Part III</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/10/19/40m-vertical-parasitic-array-part-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/10/19/40m-vertical-parasitic-array-part-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
We finally built the 40m array on Saturday and conducted a full test on Saturday night, in preparation for CQWW this weekend coming (24th/25th Oct 2009). The good news is that signals bearly audiable on 40m on our standard Mega-Loop came up a few db on the array, to around 5 and 7.
See the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>40m 3 Element Vertical Yagi Antenna - Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/10/04/40m-3-element-vertical-yagi-antenna-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/10/04/40m-3-element-vertical-yagi-antenna-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pics here:    http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/gallery/index.php?/category/183
We&#8217;ve built some large antennas before but never this big; a 3 element 40m vertical array with raised radials. We made it a raised radial system for a) a quick match to 50 ohms and b) it needs to be a &#8220;field&#8221; system. We can&#8217;t permanently leave our antennas in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>40m 3 Element Vertical Yagi Antenna</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/10/03/40m-3-element-vertical-yagi-antenna/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/10/03/40m-3-element-vertical-yagi-antenna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re putting together a Mullti-Two entry for CQWW this year and it&#8217;s pretty clear from our experience with CQWPX that we not only need gain to the US on 40m but we need excellent front-to-back ratio. A new antenna was required.
A two element yagi was considered but we don&#8217;t have a tower for such a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Region 1 Field Day 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/09/17/region-1-field-day-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/09/17/region-1-field-day-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Field days seem to whoosh by in a seamless tirade of bodily abuse that starts in the balls of the feet, grows through your hands and wind blown cheeks before reminding you that you are starving hungry and you&#8217;ve only just taken over the driving seat.
A very dissapointed 1012s QSO this  year and we still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Huawei E220 External Antenna Modification</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/07/23/huawei-e220-external-antenna-modification/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/07/23/huawei-e220-external-antenna-modification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category>Amateur Radio</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[See the high(er)-res pictures here: http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/gallery/index.php?/category/179
Modern USB Data Sticks don&#8217;t seem to come with external antenna jacks these days. This is a real shame for geeks like me who want better signals and are prepared to procure external antennas to ensure high quality signals.
This project is to ensure that we can have 24 x 7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on Narrowboat Design</title>
		<link>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/06/16/more-on-narrowboat-design/</link>
		<comments>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/2009/06/16/more-on-narrowboat-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post aimed at our US friends).
I get an email at about once a week from various members of the NordhavnDreamers group asking me more about our narrowboat which we use on the Inland Waterways of the UK. I find myself repeating myself every couple of weeks, so perhaps a high-quality post here will put [...]]]></description>
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