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Category: Homebrew

April 2017…

Posted July 11, 2017July 11, 2017 Michael SansomLeave a commentPosted in Aerials, Homebrew, Radio, Satellite, SOTA

Satellites I finally put some effort into working out how to operate through satellites starting with the nice and easy FM sat, SO-50. I treated myself to an Arrow hand held 2m/70cm crossed yagi aerial and connected it up to a Yaesu VX-6 hand held which I pre-programmed using 7 discrete frequencies to receive the […]

March 2016…

Posted March 30, 2016October 23, 2016 Michael SansomLeave a commentPosted in Homebrew, QRP, Radio

This month I rediscovered my Elecraft K1, a little gem of a radio and the first quality kit that genuinely gave me a fully featured and high performing CW transceiver. When I originally built it I had aerials for 80m & 20m so I built it to cover these two bands. Now I almost exclusively operate […]

November 2015…

Posted November 30, 2015October 23, 2016 Michael SansomLeave a commentPosted in CW, Homebrew, QRP, Radio

Mountain Topper MTR3B review Propagation, which has been pretty poor all Summer, continues to thwart all attempts to play radio so I’ve started a bit of construction working on a Minima Transceiver as designed by Ashhar Farhan (VU2ESE). This is mainly thanks to Alex (G7KSE) who sent me a couple of swanky PCBs for this […]

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