Welcome to MM1OCD

I have registered to take part in SOS Radio Week, as an individual, with the Special Event Call Sign GB26RNLI. Not only is this my first time taking part in this event, it’s the first time I have applied for a SE call sign, and it was really easy to do on the Ofcom site. […]

Radio wise, not very much at all has been happening with me. I still have no antennas at home, having removed them some time ago. Neither have I been able to get out and do any portable operating because I don’t have the time or energy due to other (life) things happening since Dec last […]

I’ve added a digital QSL card gallery, at the moment they are from my old call signs, however, I’ll hopefully start making contacts soon with my new Full callsign. There aren’t many either at the moment but you can have a look at the page via the link on the menu bar above. All the […]

So, I’ve changed my call sign, as of the 2nd of December 2025, I am now MM1OCD. I had to think long and hard about it, and had a few suffixes I had to choose from but I finally settled on OCD. As I mentioned in the previous call sign post, I have OCD and […]

Ofcom have introduced their planned changes to call signs, intermediate licence holders can now opt to change their current 2*0xxx or 2*1xxx (where * is a RSL) to M8xxx or M9xxx call signs, as I understand it, new intermediate licences will only be issued in the M8 or M9 format. In addition full licence holders […]

I was out on a hill today to try and get a SSTV (Slow Scan TV) image from the ISS, after solving some stupidity on my part I did get one good image, albeit a bit slanted. Hopefully I’ll do better before the SSTV event ends on Thursday, however, I’m working two of the days […]

On Saturday the 20th of September the RSGB in conjuction with Moonraker launched a High Altitude Balloon (HAB) from Welshpool in Wales. The payload on the balloon was basically a repeater which would Rx from ground stations and then Tx those signals back to various iGates on the ground where the contacts would end up […]

The site is coming along slowly, hopefully building it will speed up soon as I complete a work related online course that has been taking up my spare time for far too long. A few days ago I passed an online milestone, reaching 100 countries contacted using FT-8, the station being 8P6PB from Barbados on […]