Good levels of activity but not much DX of note. Nice to work into GD and GM, and to be called by F1BHL - normally I have to call him. He only gave me 53 but it was off the back of my beam.

Features

• ATtiny-13a microcontroller
• IR LED
• IR Receiver
• 2 LEDs (one green and one red)
• Button
• Badge PCB
• 3V Coin Cell

Description

The badge will work in a few different modes, these are tailored to the different age groups

Cubs: The badge will periodically...

My first FMAC entry for a while - it was busy but I did suffer with intereference from an M7 who was only 100 yards down the road! I also didn't realise that the 10W section rules had changed, so I needn't have put the x200 colinear up and could have used the beam instead. Oh well, you live and learn...

A bit of a half-hearted entry. Because of the time of the contest my primary site was unavailable and I eventually ended up at my 4th-choice site. This was just a layby/field entrance without any ability to mount a mast, so the mast ended up being braced against the car - and at reduced height due to the wind. It was pretty slow-going at times and I ended up packing up half an hour before the end of the contest. AFS contests don't suit single-op portable entries!

The following information is mostly derived from a hamdigitaal.nl article and is only for use on the Brandmeister Network - this will not work on Phoenix UK or any other networks.

Firstly, you need to know your local Brandmeister master node id. The UK node is 2341 (list here). The ID that we need to use...