Portable Amateur Radio
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 are using the WSJT-X software constantly to make contacts comprising of a simple signal report exchange and…
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 Inflatable Antenna that I bought from www.radiogeeks.co.uk . Both places were just a few miles from home>…
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 fit my HF Air antenna into my LC-192 backpack I realized that the pouch I had already…
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 I wont use any old gimmick or rubbish. It has to work. So a could of years…
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 are a few to choose from but I find FLRIG works very well with the Icom Remote.…
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 new IC-705 and on Friday 19th March 2020 Icom UK sent out a press release that it…
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 of the IC-705, its my thoughts and some details on what I have been doing with it…
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 now and today was the first time we could go out anywhere without breaking some draconian law…
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 will go through the sodtware settings in the Icom Remote Utrility which is part of the Icom…
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 PC 100% over WiFi – that’s for CAT Control as well as sound. This has allowed me…
