I am putting my Kuhne MKU13 G3 into a Shubert enclosure and I would like to have front panel indication that the synth is locked when I have an external source. On one corner of the synth daughter boa

Just a reminder that the UK Microwave Group AGM takes place tomorrow, 18th April, at 10:00AM. Details of the Zoom call were included on page 5 of the March 2021 edition of Scatterpoint. Members can ac

I will be writing the June GHz Bands column early next week and the good news is that I have two pages again! My deadline is close of play Thursday, so please send me any news, activity, Details of no

Quick (and possibly daft!) question (still learning as far as uwaves go). Going to venture out /P for first time soon on 13cm terrestrial. I will be trying an 85cm offset TVRO dish which I have used t

Hi all, apologies for the blatent Ad (well not really but it don't cost nuttin' to say :-)) ) I have received a number of enquires from builders who have Anglia or Iceni pcbs from Sam's ''sweepings''.

I'm getting fed up trying to read the screen on these 817's so thought about a 9700. Looking at its manual, it has separate o/p for 2 and 70 (and 23) but though the ptt is on the acc socket there is o

I am trying to help GD6ICR , who is needing details of this 10GHz waveguide 16 based , prime focus dish feed . The design was published in the 3rd Edition of the RSGB VHF Manual , circa 1976 . Can any

There is a well know law of electronics that if you have a fiull set of spares for an item it is very unlikely to go wrong! During the rebuild of GB3KBQ, due to the generocity of individuals on this f

A reminder that the next UK Microwave Group Technical talk will take place tomorrow, 14th April, at 20:00. Backyard Hydrogen Line Astronomy - by Brian Coleman G4NNS The talk can be viewed on the BATC

I haven't been following the thread in detail, and can't be bovvered to search back. Is there a need for extracting separate PTT control depending on band / freq / whatever ? And if so, on which rigs

Hi Microwave Group I’m new to the forum and looking for some advice on what I believe is called ALC Overrun. I am looking at purchasing an SG Labs 1296 transverter to get started on 23cms. All the adv

Very nice to work Ken G0WZV in JO01 at 235 km on 3cn earlier this evening via a good scatterpoint near Huntingdon. Lots of drizzle on the path, so not spectacularly loud, but perfect copy on CW, garbl

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23GHz-WAVELAB-23x1008xp-Transverter-QRO/203289901451 Discussion at http://mikrofale.cafe/showthread.php?tid=197 - also an interesting new item about a controller for a Alcat

Hopefully more in July once I get more devices as I still have plenty of pcbs John

We plan to be out this Sunday, after the long break: Callsign: M0HNA/P Locator: IO91RF Bands: 1.3GHz 400W 67ele 2.3GHz 60W 0.9m dish 3.4GHz 15W 1.1m o/s dish Talkback: ON4KST, (23cm M0HNA-1, 9&13cm M0

Seems that the RF devices are out of stock at all UK suppliers until at least July so I'm down to the last 2 or 3 of each kit for now. I'm looking for alternative suppliers/devices so watch this space

Neil G4LDR said " We should also keep tabs on the best UK DX achieved by the VK systems (approx. 12km at the moment I think)." On October 18th 2020 Dave G1EHF and Noel G8GTZ worked 17.03km between IO9

Hi folks Yesterday (7th April ) at 1030 UTC a new British 122 GHz distance record was made over 35.925 kms by Roger G8CUB/P and Chris G0FDZ/P, between Danbury in Essex and Minster on the Isle of Shepp

Following on from recent posting about fitting LSR caps across the regulator filter caps on 4351 boards, I fitted two 1000uf across the two regulator o/ps. Seems to have helped I think? Ben Before and

Hi all, I've just attempted to retune this duplexer from Radio Frequency Systems P/L. Model: CP1800-I42 Originally on 1710 and 1910 MHz. It tuned down to 1273 and 1293 MHz OK but kept the same "channe