Dec 31, 2024
It has been a while since I last posted on my website, but with 2025 on the horizon, I thought now was the perfect time to make a comeback. It is fair to say this has been a busy amateur radio year, and an incredibly fun one at that. Anyone claiming the hobby is dying...
Mar 18, 2019
Preface: I wrote this post nearly 2 years ago with the idea of posting it but decided to hold off, but I think I should post it as HamTests played a pivotal part in my life.HamTests fully closed in August 2018 with the question pool released to the community to use in...
Oct 10, 2012
Over the weekend I had some time to try and see if I could get the cheap DVB-T usb dongle to work as a remote SDR using the Raspberry Pi as the server, using the tools from RTL-SDR it really isn’t that hard. On the Raspberry Pi I was using the latest version of...
Sep 30, 2012
September has proven to be rather hectic and sadly not when it comes to amateur radio; I’ve been plagued with on-going health issues relating to crazy amounts of general pain in the body which no one can actually figure out so now heavily doped up on medication...
Sep 3, 2012
Few months back for fathers day I ordered Dad the RF Space IF-2000 board for the Yaesu FT-950, along which it I ordered the SDR-IQ too well we would need to to make use of the IF output. Since then we’ve been making the most of it using SpectraVue on a...
Feb 11, 2012
At the start of the month I hit a critical point, I ran out of 2e0SQL QSL Cards. This is always a pain specially when you’ve got a large number of QSL cards just turn up from the bureau, and people you’ve worked you’d like to QSL so something had to...
