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Today saw me out on Winsford Hill a couple of miles from home with my icom IC-705 and HB9CV portable antenna. This is quite a popular spot for walkers, picnickers and park the car and look at the view types of folk.…

For the past couple of days we have been exploring Exmoor National Park around our new home. Being right in the middle of it we don‘t have to go far but Exmoor covers almost 700 square kilometres or 300 square miles, for…

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…

In this post I thought I would talk about how I power my Radio and Computers in the field. Like many other operators I pick computers that have low power requirements such as the Raspberry Pi which will run from 5V USB…

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…