Amateur Radio

JS8Call an overview for new users

Introduction JS8Call has been in around for a few years now, but its sadly still not very popular. Many Amateur Radio Operators around the world

Over the past weekend we went out to a couple of high points in Exmoor national park so that I could try out my 2m/70cm

Sometimes we don’t have to look very far for a solution to carrying our gear into the field. Whilst looking for an easy way to

As you may know (if you’ve been following my posts on instgram and twitter) I’m a big fan of quick to deploy simple antennas. But

JS8Call is one piece of software we use that does not natively support the IC-705. So we need to use some rig control software. There

A long, long time ago (everything seems to be a long time ago these days) Icom announced the AH-705 Automatic Antenna Tuner for the excellent

I don’t really do reviews but quite a few operators have asked me what I think if the IC-705 so this is not a review

Where we live on #Exmoor even a routine trip to the shop can be great with views like this. We’ve been here a few weeks

In the pervious article I went through the settings in the Icom IC-705 to enable operation over WLAN (Wireless Lan) , in this one I

I recently discovered the Icom RS-BA1 software which includes the Icom Remote Utility. This software allows me to connect to my IC-705 from a windows