Made a 70.275Mhz antenna from a 85MHz helical whip by Kathrein.
With a piece of 75ohm coax stuffed into it.

#hamradio #70MHz #4m #Kathrein #Antenna

I'm hearing frustrating bursts of voice on the 70MHz FM calling frequency - lots of flutter, but I'm convinced it's not a /M station. Whoever it is can't hear me. That's the joy & frustration of the 4 metre band!

#hamRadio #hamRadio #70mhz

#amateurradio sort of afternoon.
Pretty good conditions on 10m / 28MHz with strong North American stations although the QSB was also strong.

Got into the New York 10m repeater and made a couple of contacts.
I would have got into the London Ontario repeater but it was hogged by a couple of blokes talking politics for over an hour!
I resorted to #FT8 and got Kentucky, Sth Carolina & Georgia before getting bored.

Still nothing heard on my new 4m / 70MHz handheld!

#hamRadio #28MHz #70MHz

RF section of a Motorola MC Micro for the 66-88MHz band.

This unit in particular needs some work before being put on the 4m band, due to it not actually working at the moment.

#Motorola #MCMicro #70MHz #4m

Aand like that I have a #4m antenna for #70MHz

Dipoles are easy.

Last year #70MHz #4mband #sporadic stats:

$ wget https://dxrobot.gooddx.net/eskiplog70.htm

$ cat Good\ DX\ -\ 70\ MHz\ E-skip\ in\ Europe.html | fgrep "ES>" | awk '$3~/([A-Z][A-Z]?|[A-Z][0-9]|[0-9][A-Z])[0-9][A-Z]+/ {if ($NR<3514) print $(NF-1)}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
1634 Jun
861 Jul
265 Aug
189 May
23 Apr
6 Sep
1 Oct
1 Mar
1 Jan

Apparently, I should start sending stray CQs to probe conditions
(initally in FT8) in May.