Hi all There is a Hewlett Packard Tracking Generator 8443A on ebay for £40 20 hrs left nothing to do with me but I couldn’t even do the box for £30 Paul No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG

DPD are telling me my transverter will be delivered tomorrow. Now I have to decide whether to use this one on terrestrial or reuse the G2 Kuhne one, but with the new, external, LO to keep it from drif

I’m thinking of modifying a POTY dish feed for QO-100 and would welcome comments. As to why I want to do this, photo 1 shows the feed I am presently using. It’s a BaMaTech dual band feed. I have disco

USK ... I can't seem to hear it ... is it off? -- Best regards, Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited E: robin@... T: +44 (0) 1299 405028 M: +44 (0) 7971 883371 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The informat

A lovely wet afternoon to all ! If, and only if, I manage to get both my 3.7 -4.2GHz 25w amplifiers hackling on 3.4GHz, whats the possibility of acquiring a pair of Quadrature Hybrid (Branch Line Coup

All, Got my 3.4GHz transverter from Bulgaria this morning, didn’t think it would take long once it reached the Czech Republic. Hope others will get theirs soon. 73’s Colin de G8LBS. Ipswich. Sent from

I need to make some SMA male to N Type male with semi-rigid. The SMA plugs I have. N Type. I see these with a window for soldering the centre conductor but they say crimp for outer. So, can I solder t

Easy contacts to GM land, use "Thundersnow", the latest in technology for Scotland. Swing those dishes North and watch for the Thundersnow. It looks like a thunderstorm but has that special quality. G

Whilst sat here waiting for freedom I have just compared a modded LNB to an unmodded one, Tokyosat with tcxo fitted, 0.5db Nf, 60db gain against the Octagon Green cap PLL 0.1db NF 60db gain. I had bou

Looking to design a better network to go on the output of a quad downconverter chip. These devices have differential outputs for I and Q, so essential 0/90/180/270° ports Simplest in concept is to use

Hi guys, Can anybody point me to a small Tayloe mixer board with just the 4way mux chip and the 90deg. clock divider chip on it? Anything with an xxxx3253 chip on it. I'll do the op-amp and phasing SS

A friend has just received, after 2 months wait, a faulty mixer from Ebay. Before he re-orders does anyone have a surplus working mixer? Adrian

Hi John, I'm re-sending to you my ideas for slight improvements to the UKuG Calendar for 2021, and CC'ing the wider community to see if anyone else wants to suggest some changes, before the final 2021

uW’ers et al, 12V Rechargeable 3000mAh Li-ion Battery Storage AC/DC for CCTV Camera Battery A year or so ago I bought the above off the bay with the intention of supplying a noise free 12v to small pr

Hi, If any body is interested I have for disposal a HP8341B 10MHz - 20GHz sweeper, HP8757A scalar network Analyser (fitted option1), and a couple of HP11664D 26.5 - 40GHz detectors (waveguide) Any int

I am looking to transport a heavy HP siggen (almost 2 man lift) from Mid Suffolk to Hants. It will go on the back seat of a car ok... Is anyone going that route in the next month or so, perhaps over x

Hi all, I am looking for information on the Diaco switch pictured, and an explanation of its operation. Can you select only 1 output, or can the input be connected to multiple outputs, depending on wh

According to the spec of this device (ADF5355 54M-13.6GHz) it is programmable via USB - Ive tried a few methods but cant get it to re-act to any serial commands anyone out there with experience of thi

I was a bit surprised at the quickness at which some called off qso attempts the other night on 9 and 3. Given the narrow beamwidth if using a dish etc the chances of being spot on at the first attemp

Just found myself another 1.1Mtr offset dish locally. I Will have to see if I can get it on the tripod, once I build the top housing, the big nut has arrived so hope to sink that into a wood boss then