by mark | Feb 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Over the past couple of months Ive been putting together a couple of portable stations, this one uses a hand truck/sack truck, not only does this enable me to move it about quite easily it also acts as the ground plane for the vertical antenna which is held up with...
by mark | 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,...
by mark | 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...
by mark | 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....
by mark | Dec 1, 2018 | Digital Modes, JS8Call, Raspberry Pi
I added the Adafruit GPS hat to my Raspberry Pi 3B+ today. As well as a GPS it has a real time clock, which should help the time accuracy of the Pi. My first problem was that I had to solder the GPIO connector on. Don’t look to close at the pic, it’s not very good...
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