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WPX RTTY
Well,Very, very little time spent, but some excellent propagation about, including great openings on 10M. Just shows you what stable solar conditions can support on the high HF bands.Local conditions.
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23cm from a HillTop - Most definately!
Well,Following my recent musings about the construction of a portable 23cm station here:http://g0mgx.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/23cm-from-hilltop-oh-yes.htmlMyself and Vince, G0ORC put it on the air last...
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Look what I've got
Well,Came home with one of these today:It's a new IC-7300 from Icom.First impressions are excellent.I'll post more once I have RTFM and used it a bit.Local conditions.
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IC-7300 - the first Casualty?
Well,You will remember last time that I came home with a new IC-7300. I've played with it quite a bit and it seemed to be an excellent radio with very good close in signal rejection on...
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Frequency Reference
Well,Been thinking for a while that my shack frequency reference is a bit old hat and could be a bit more useful. What I would really like is a GPS disciplined VFO so I can set the frequency for my...
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More Frequency Reference
So,Following my musings last time over the QRP Labs GPS module, I've now also built two further kits from QRP Labs. The S5351A Module and the VFO.When you combine all these together in the way I have...
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Frequency Reference Completion
Well,The project from last time is even in a box now:Good egh?You will see that we adhere to strict rules whereby the dogs are not allowed on the furnature: Local conditions.
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4M - Alive and well?
Well,Some interesting propagation on 4M today. A beacon very loud from JN86:Here's the 4M map from the great DXMaps.com:Definately experiencing some "local conditions"Good, egh?
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RTL on HF? no way!
Well,I read with interest an article in Practical Wireless from June 2016 describing a neat looking receive converter to be placed up front of an RTL dongle type receiver.These RTL devices are easy to...
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I've made another one!
Well,You may recall the recent Frequency Reference that I made, I've just finished building another one for someone else! This one is almost identical except I have included a 1MHz low pass filter as...
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New Amplifiermabob
Well,I've been thinking for a while about upgrading the amplifiers I have here for 4/6M and also 2M. Here's the result of my investment:The 950 deliveres 1KW on 6M (500W on 4M) and the 1000 is 1KW on...
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SDR with the Red Pitaya
Well,I came accross this board on the RS Components website, it's called a Red Pitaya:Now this board is very much designed with RF and SDR (Software Defined Radio) in mind, it's got some very high...
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It doesnt get more Bonkers!!!!
Well,You may recall that some time ago, myself and Vince, G0ORC, set up a Wires-X repeater.This has been an endless cause of headaches as it has continually suffered lock-ups in FM TX mode since we...
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Following the Birds!
Well,For quite some time I have wanted to try my hand at Amateur Satellites. Now, I plan to utilise my IC-9100 for this task - it is a full duplex radio meaning I can TX on one band whilst RX on the...
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Some More Bird Time!
Well,Following the progress last time, today I have finished the LVB Tracker kit.The kit is complete and the programming of the PIC done; I had some issues with this part of the project. I couldn't get...
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QED on the Birds!
Well,Following my last post here, I've managed to complete my first Satellite QSO.I'm using SatPC32 to control the antennas and also the Radio:My first QSO was with RN6MA in LN06uo - Thanks Victor!We...
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Doppler, Frequency Inversion, What's all that then?
Well,As I fiddle, I learn. That's the basic idea anyhow.So, I've been making a few QSOs through these amateur satellite thingamagigs.There are a series of Japanese birds called the XW-2 series. Their...
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DG8 Pre-Amp - More gain, really?
Well,I ordered a DG8 pre-amp for 2M from here last week and it duly arrived. I only ordered the "short" kit as I thought I would probably have a lot of the more common bits needed anyhow.Here's the...
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TXing WSPR with the Red Pitaya
Well,You may recall some time ago that I had a fiddle with a Red Pitaya? This was back here in this post.So further to the WSPR RX I was doing back then, I made a request via Mike Richards G4WNC (He...
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RTTY Everywhere!
Well,It's the CQ WW RTTY test this weekend, because of travel tomorrow and other commitments - only a very quick play this year.Here's the 15M log as a map:With SFI:86, A:9, K:2, R:49 - the 15M band...
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