M7NXS

AMATEUR RADIO STATION // NORTH YORKSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM // IO93lx
STATION ACTIVE
CALL  M7NXS
QTH  NORTH YORKSHIRE
GRID  IO93LX
ITU  27  /  CQ  14

ABOUT M7NXS

M7NXS is a UK amateur radio station operating from North Yorkshire, England, in Maidenhead grid square IO93lx. Licensed in 2026, with a much longer background in SDR and RF that predated the callsign by some years.

The station is built around one idea: it should be automated, always on, and useful to other people without anyone having to ask. That is why the receivers are public, and the decode feed is public. There is very little ragchewing here and a great deal of data.

The five receivers behind OWRX.UK are all fed from this station's antennas. Anything you hear on them, M7NXS is hearing too.

STATION HARDWARE

HF STATION
TRANSCEIVER
Icom IC-7300 MK2
PSU
Moonraker SM-30II
FEEDLINE
RG-213 mil-spec
ANALYSER
NanoVNA-H
PORTABLE
DX Commander Classic, Pelican-cased IC-7300
HF ANTENNA
RADIATOR
41.7 m end-fed long wire
MATCH
Chameleon 9:1 UNUN
CHOKE
DX Engineering 1:1, 1.8–54 MHz
COUNTERPOISE
Earth rod, bonded steel fence, 10 m + 6.8 m radials
PROTECTION
TVS board, Mix 31 common-mode chokes
VHF / UHF
ANTENNA
Diamond D3000N discone
RX RANGE
25 — 3000 MHz
HANDHELD
Icom ID-52E Plus
DMR
Retevis RT3S
SPLIT
Diamond SS-500, SDR receive protector
RECEIVERS
HF WIDEBAND
Web-888 — 16-bit, 1 kHz–62 MHz
HF
SDRplay RSP1B
VHF / UHF
SDRplay RSP1B
HF SPOT
RTL-SDR Blog V4
ADS-B
1090 MHz outdoor antenna + FlightStick

MODES & OPERATION

HF Digital

FT8 on 14.074 and 7.074, and JS8Call on 7.078 — both daily drivers rather than occasional experiments. WSPR and FT4 alongside.

Wide-Coverage FT8 Monitoring

Every FT8 band from 10m to 160m is covered by two independent receivers at once, with the Web-888 on all ten. The overlap is deliberate — it produces a continuous measurement of wideband receiver performance against dedicated narrow-window SDRs sharing the same antenna. The coverage matrix shows which receiver covers which band, and the live decode feed shows the result.

Digital Voice

D-STAR registered on ircDDB as M7NXS; DMR ID 2359105 on BrandMeister. Local hotspot on 433.300 simplex. Usual haunts are XLX248 X (FreeSTAR UK) and XLX354 B (Yorkshire Net UK), plus GB7YC on DMR for the Sunday evening club net on TG234169.

Local Repeaters

  • GB3HG — 145.625 MHz, −0.6 MHz, 88.5 Hz tone (Thirsk, IO94JF)
  • GB3CY — 430.8625 MHz, +7.6 MHz, 88.5 Hz tone (York, IO93KW)
  • GB7YC — DMR, 433.1375 RX / 438.1375 TX, CC9 (York, IO93LX)

Logging & QSL

Logbook of the World, uploaded automatically every night at 02:00 UTC, and QRZ. Currently chasing DXCC. LoTW or QRZ both work for confirmations — no paper cards needed.

CONTACT M7NXS

The fastest way to reach M7NXS is a QSO — FT8 or JS8Call on the frequencies above, or the club net on a Sunday evening.

Callsign lookup and contact details: M7NXS on QRZ.com

Public receivers: OWRX.UK  ·  Live decodes: feed.owrx.uk