Parks On the Air – How to
I do most of my Amateur Radio operation and for the most part I use the digital mode JS8CALL picking a spot to set up somewhere in the great outdoors and spend a couple of hours on the radio. But sometimes its…
The M1ECC Antennas Military Folding Whip
Earlier this year (or maybe late last year its hard to tell these days!) I got myself the Slidewinder Coil from M1ECC antennas and after chatting with them I found out about the new Military Folding antenna they would be selling. I…
Portable 2M FM and SSB operation with my IC705
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.…
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…