by mark | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Hi Again Everyone, Today the rest of the parts to build my Portable Station Computer arrived No, Im not doing an unboxing video… I ordered these parts from RS Components Adafruit Ultimate GPS Hat Provides GPS and PPS time source, with battery backed up time....
by mark | Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Hey all Ive been thinking about my portable computing set up again, and I’ve come back to the Raspberry Pi. So what Im planning to do is (finally!) produce a series of blog posts about setting this up as the best amateur radio portable computer that I can, its...
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....
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