I'll attempt 3cm and 6cm SSB from home, for the January SHF UKAC. Will have KST, Zello and 144.390MHz SSB. Not holding out for many QSO's, but we shall see. Hopefully the snow will have melted by then

I don't believe gap WGs will have much application in amateur microwaves unless low-cost micromachining becomes available. What is attractive and not currently used in any amateur designs AFAIK is 'Su

Does anyone have experience of using the ERA-02 as a tripler from around 3.5 GHz to around 10.5 GHz? I know they work in triplers up to 3 GHz, but I was wondering whether they have a respectable perfo

I have just built a G4DDK PGA-103 preamp to use for ADSB receive on 1090MHz. The preamp will be mounted up on a pole, directly underneath a PCB antenna, in a plastic tube. I feed 12V up to the preamp

As my uw antennas are all temporary, ie I put then up and down only when needed, akin to portable op's but from the home qth, I noticed after the last 23cm use which was in the rain here, got soaked i

A large band of snow cloud heading East from this QTH is producing SS from SEE and PKT . 73 John G0API

I've recently been made aware of substrateless ridge gap waveguide (RGW) and groove gap waveguide (GGW) after reading the publication of "Substrate-less Oscillator Module Realized by Gap Waveguide Tec

I recently bought a whitebox system which arrived in a very poor state. The oscillator 1st stage had several burnt out resistors and the 2nd stage transformer was shorted. All these easily fixed. But

Just like to share some very good customer service experiences from firms microwavers tend to use. Firstly SG labs transverter repair, sent to them before Xmas came back early Jan no charge despite pu

I know some of us use the Baofeng UV-5R 2m/70cm hand-held as a signal marker on 10GHz due to the 24th harmonic of the RX LO highlighted in this article: https://destevez.net/2016/07/phase-noise-of-a-b

With reference to Conrads comment below about being in the middle of England to win we found the opposite. Many years ago our contest group, Three Spires did a statistical survey of points scored of a

Yup, Flatter than the proverbial . Soggy signal from KBQ (loud) but no DX at all . It needs the right rain but I hate to wish for that with the Rain map showing wots about upt North . Is the Tone a ma

New to 23cm so bought an antenna from a well known manufacturer last April, supplied from a well known BIG ham outlet in the UK. This antenna looked solidly made and I was pleased with my purchase. Fi

I had intended the Microwavers Audio Beacon keyer http://g4jnt.com/MicrowaversAudioKeyer.pdf to be the only one I 'did' in terms of hardware. But there have been a small number of requests for the ori

Hi All I have updated the Chipbank catalogue which should be on the UKuG's website by now. The main addition is a new file containing about 130 crystals ranging in frequency from 4MHz to 117MHz. They

I have had both 2 Metre and a 70 CM MET Yagis on my mast for over 30++ years, plus a small 5 Element MET Yagi for 70 CMs for /p use. As a Group member rightly pointed out the threads on the elements a

I have received reports like 54S - but not sure if S is acceptable in contest reporting or other computerised logging schemes as a tone report. 73 Pete GM4BYF On 19/01/21 16:50, Clive Elliott GW4MBS v

Well I’m flummoxed ! I have some six legged SMD MCL devices (8mmx5.5mm) marked MCL B 739 then underneath TX-2-5-1. There is also an unidentifiable symbol plus a + sign. Can anyone ID these please. I r

Hello Can Anyone recognize probably GaAs FET or MMIC marked *AQD* ???? It looks this is driver for HMC283 working 17 to 40 GHz photo taken from 23GHz application -- vy73 de Tom *SP5XMU* / *SN5R* *http

FDM Duo Transceiver (black) Very popular as a transverter driver. I thought I'd advertise it here before Ebay. Tad under £700 inc post. PM me if interested. Perfect working order. (unlike me) Phil G3Y