Leaving HamTests, Refocusing

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...
Stream RTL-SDR IQ data over a network using a Raspberry Pi & RTL_TCP

Stream RTL-SDR IQ data over a network using a Raspberry Pi & RTL_TCP

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...

September Summary

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...
RF Space SDR-IQ SDR RX & The IF-2000 Board

RF Space SDR-IQ SDR RX & The IF-2000 Board

  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...

More QSL Cards from FDSQSL

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...

2011 Review

Its that time of year again when I look back at what I set out to achieve but didn’t quite manage; Thankfully I did manage to do a lot of what I set  activity on 6/2/70cms is increased and I’ve made numerous QSOs on each of the bands, the only thing that...