Parks on the Air IC-705
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…
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 are using the WSJT-X software constantly to make contacts comprising of a simple signal report exchange and…
Inflatable 2m/70cm Antenna
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>…
Inflatable Antenna Pouch
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…
The Inflatable HF Antenna from RadioGeeks
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 Settings with IC-705 and Icom Remote
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.…
Not a review of the Icom AH705 Automatic Antenna Tuner
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…
Powering a portable digital Amateur radio station
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…
Icom IC-705 174 Days Later….
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…
Icom IC-705 with Icom Remote and WSJT-X
I had an email from an operator who was having some trouble setting up WSJT-X with the Icom Remote Software and IC-705 so I thought I would continue the series of setup guides with this one for WSJT-X. Not all of the…