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Experimenters' Corner
Well,Since November '25, a lot of my musings are heading into a new monthly column I am authoring in the RSGB magazine RadCom.Experimenters' Corner is intended to be an outlet where I hope to inspire...
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It's CQWW CW
Well,Last weekend was the CQ WW CW contest - always a good opportunity to make some rare and distant contacts.I've never seen the bands so busy, propagation was amazing and there were simply signals...
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Can you still beat the Cube?
Well,In a feable attempt to prove that I can still write some code, I've been writing software to program the ADF4351 from last time using the STM32CubeIDE and a Nucleo board. The Nucleo boards are...
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It's Pill Time again
You may recall that I used the SDM32 MCU range quite a lot and also the "Blue Pill" board for a lot of my projects.Recently the board support package that I was using in Arduino has become depreciated...
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The Black ADF4351 Boards
Well,Some time ago, I did some expermimentation with black ADF4351 evaluation boards that are available at all good sites selling wares from the land where copyright means "lets copy it right".I've...
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An EMI Spy?
I've bought myself one of these kits from SDR Kits:It's a german bit of kit marketed by Funk Amateur but sold in the UK by SDR Kits and is called the EMI Spy 2.0.There's a load of bits and bobs in a...
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Playing in WPX
Well,This weekend is the grand-daddy of all CW contests - the WPX CW test. There are many words to describe the bands while this test is happening, my preference would be bonkers. There is CW...
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The Art of Rotator Control
Well,I watched a video the other day on the TechMinds YouTube channel all about a rotator control board sold by AF6SA.This neat little board provides a controller for almost any rotator and then allow...
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More MA6B shenanigans
Well,Back in the midst of time, I installed an MAA6B from Cushcraft - well, MFJ as they were. Sandly now defunct.It's been a bit "out of bonk" recently with some SWR swings and I assumed I'd got a...
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TinyGS - A Satellite Groundstation using LoRa (no, not Laura)
Well,Unless you have been asleep for a few years, you will undoubtedly have seen people using low cost LoRa (long Range) wireless modules based on the ESP32 MCU for off-grid comms using...
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Pluto+
I've bought myself a Pluto+ from Bangood. Externally it looks the same as I expected, but internally it's different to anything I've seen posted previously:I set it up following some information on...
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Messing About With NodeRed
I'm still messing about with my ideas for QO-100 and I'm now thinking that I'm going to make a remote box of tricks that will be connected by ethernet to the house.The main SDR will be the Adalm-Pluto...
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Eshail-2 thats QO-100
Well,Soon after the launch of the QO-100 satellite I managed to bodge together a station - which has long since been discarded.I've decied to have another go and see what activity is on this...
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ARISS and SSTV
Well,Over Christmas and New Year, ARISS (Thats Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) have been transmiting some Slow Scan Television to commemerate the year 2024.The transmissions are on...
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I'm Back! Its a Portsdown 4
Well,After a long time doing other things, I'm back into the radio hobby after quite a spell away.I have a new "shack" at the house, which is shared by quite a few of my aquatic chums (I keep fish),...
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A very quick video showing how to play back on-air recordings:Simple, don't you think?
View ArticleBalun Output Impedance
Well,Lots of discussions about my baluns and the test setup, a common question seems to be how to measure the output impedance.Here's my way:Fun, dont you think?
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Progress is slow and steady
My little YouTube channel continues to progress slowly:Good fun!
View ArticleIts Funny What you can Find
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