I’ve been waiting to get on 4m for some time but for various reasons never got around to it, however in early September Iain (M0PCB) said that he had a HG-7028 transverter and a 4el LFA for sale at a good price so I jumped at the chance, not only that Iain...
After returning from Ham Radio 2013 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, I had made my mind up that I was going to replace my satellite antennas (standard Diamond yagis) that I first purchased for satellite use with X-Quads from Wimo which I order on the day I returned. Sadly...
After reading on G4ILO’s blog about the Baofeng UV-3R, I thought I’d order one to give it ago as I only had a 2m VX-150 plus the UV-3R looked a lot lighter and something I might be more inclined to carry around so on the 16 May I ordered one from...
During the first weekend of this month I took a trip to Cambridge to visit M1BXF but also pickup a second hand fully loaded ICOM IC-910X which I’m now using for satellite work and also general VHF/UHF QSOs, so far the experience with it has been fantastic and...
I finally got round to putting the MP1 Chapstick together and giving it a whirl on Monday, setting it up was easy using the tripod legs to keep it off the grass in the back garden for this test I decided just to run it into the shack using the coax we normally use for...
I was doing my usual trawl around the Internet on Friday afternoon and noticed that Yaesu had issued a new firmware update for the Yaesu FT950 which has been in the shack for just over a year and 1 week. There had been some noticeable improvements too with them...