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Xiegu G90 Data
One of the delights with having multiple portable HF radios is the capacity to use different specific features that suit a particular radio over another. One particular radio that I like, is my Xiegu G90, which is a…
Read More »A 5/8th Wave Antenna for 146 Mhz.
Last weekend I did some work for WICEN with the National Capital Rally, and during the drive in I remembered how terrible access to the 146.900 Mhz repeater on Isaacs Ridge was for me in the Xtrail. Normally,…
Read More »Brazing a Terminal to Stainless Steel Wire
As part of my HF gear, I would like to make some significantly more robust antennas. Most of my work has been done with heavy duty wire, but I would like to make antennas that I don’t have…
Read More »A New Antenna for 40M/20M
(or how I made a nice balun that should last a while) Inspired by an email I saw recently advertising the Chameleon 40/20 antenna (https://chameleonantenna.com/shop-here/ols/products/cha-4020-fd), as well as a review I saw on the HamRadioConcepts Youtube Channel by…
Read More »SOTA Activation Mt Stromlo VK1/AC-043
I am at the stage of life where I get to have Wednesdays off on a reliable basis – It is a wonderful privilege and an opportunity to do much pottering around the house. Last night (Tuesday) there…
Read More »The South Australian Wireless Institute Journals 1959 – 1977
I recently saw a request from a fellow amateur operator in South Australia looking for somebody to take a box full of South Australian Wireless Institute Journals he had archived from between 1959 and 1977. I decided that…
Read More »Blowing up a Yaesu FT-891
Some posts should never need to be written. Here is one of them. I spent the weekend installing my FT-891 into the car – Radio under the passengers front seat, control head onto the dash, and new FC-40…
Read More »Yaesu FC30 Tuner Protocol
Or how I (almost) interfaced an Yaesu FT-891 radio to an Icom tuner. I recently decided to replace my Icom IC708G in the car, as it had a weird ALC fault on transmit. It is afterall, a radio…
Read More »Modern radios get shredded.
Or why we can’t have nice things…. I have always had a soft spot for military hardware – from an era when I was much younger where I got to work on beautifully constructed electronics that was designed…
Read More »Repairing a Yaesu FC757-AT Auto Tuner
I recently picked up a FC757-AT tuner to compliment my FT757Gx. I got it for an absolute steal, and it turns out that it was because it was faulty 🙂 (You have to love estate sales on eBay)….
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