Portable on the River Hamble

Portable on the River Hamble

by | Dec 31, 2018 | Uncategorized

I spent a few hours completing some work on my portable station this afternoon, and was very pleased with the results. I had QSOs on 20m SSB with stations in Lapland, Serbia, Bosnia and in Iceland using 25watts into my vertical 1/4 wave wire and artificial ground,...
Let’s go fly a kite

Let’s go fly a kite

by | Dec 8, 2018 | Uncategorized

it was windy enough today to try out my Chameleon Emcomm II on the river. Unfortunately too windy and gusts so the antenna wire kept dipping in the water. But I got the kite up in the air and could hear some stations on 20m so it’s working fine. i have also finished...
Power for the Raspberry Pi and Adafruit GPS hat

Power for the Raspberry Pi and Adafruit GPS hat

by | Dec 7, 2018 | Uncategorized

Instead of using a 12volt to USB power port which sometimes cause noise on lower HF bands I thought I would give this a try. its a UBEC DC-DC coverter which takes a 5.5 to 26volt input and gives us a steady 5volt supply and it supposed to have limited EM interference....