SatellitesI 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 satellite […]
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 […]
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 project. Thanks dude…In addition […]