A pleasure to finally work more than a couple of stations on 13cm tonight. It really was quite horrible weather, so I worked it from home instead of up a hill, but did manage 12 contacts and odx of 22

Folks, I have now got working transverters for 13cm and 9cm. Only 3 watts to small PCB yagi's, but a start (1.2m dish next). I plan to try them out tomorrow (27/10/2020) in the UKAC as hopefully I may

I could be out tonight for the first tests of my 10 ghz gear. I will be at Thrufield IO92XA. I have a few things to tidy up, I have copied the local GB3CAM via rain scatter so I know something is work

I have a 2m dish that I would like to put on my tower without destroying the pattern of 2 x 12 ele 144 MHz yagis. I have a feeling that having the dish at 90 deg to the yagis will be better. I wonder

Just a final reminder that the UK Microwave Group Annual General Meeting takes place today at 10:00AM on Zoom. Full login details were in the August edition of Scatterpoint. Hope to see many of you th

I see some old friends on this list, so I'll say hello in order to get the moderators' attentions. May be back in the UK in a while, so thought I'd sign up! -- 73, Paul Evans G4BKI [VP9KF] - former Pl

What is the Microwave group "Activity Weekend" ? as it's on their calendar for this weekend. The weather is reasonable, I'm wondering if it's worth taking 23cm's out for an hour this after noon Nick G

Going through my box of PSU's, I came across a couple of Coutant ML100 PSU's. These could be be ideal to power my new amplifier while out portable 18-32v in 19-28v out @4 amps There lies the problem,

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I wonder if anyone has one of these in their bottom draw? Looking to ugrade 10GHz beacon ..sadly G8 ACE no longer has any of these in stock! Adrian

Looks like the dynamic DNS for Mow Cop WebSDR at http://mowcopsdr.boldlygoingnowhere.org:8901 is not updating, so the service has disappeared. Anyone else having the same problem, or know if there is

Hi All I am looking for a four hole mounting female N connector in stainless steel ( if such a thing exists ) to replace the one on a helix feed to my QO-100 uplink antenna. After a year, the silver p

Hi does anyone have any good ideas for a 3cm / 6cm feed to suit a sky mini dish or maybe a 60cm offset dish?? 2 separate ports would be ideal and linear polarization required. Thanks in advance 73 Chr

Sorry for the Newbie question :) I'm a bit paranoid as I've let the "Magic Smoke" out of microwave projects in the past. I've deburred everything and polished with fine wire wool and Brasso to get the

Having gathered up all the bits for my new base station 23Cm unit I now need a case. 18mth or so I had a pile of Pye stuff, Cambs, Wessi, Vanguards etc which I thought I'd never need again so got rid

My deadline for the DUBUS European Microwave column is rapidly approaching. I have received a number of reports already about the tropo opening in September, more would of course be welcome, plus any

Looking to get back on the band again after a gap of 40 years. Anyone got any equipment they no longer need please? My original narrow band WG20 has long since gone. Never really exploited the band, i

Not much action on a Saturday night on 3cm, so after checking the usual beacons and hearing the usual suspects, FNY, CAM, OSW and PKT, but not a sniff from even the ever-faithful KBQ, I decided to sen

i made an application for a Memorial Trophy for Denis G3UVR , i would like to thank Jacqui goody the Trophy manager and the VHFCC and ian for there help and support, iam pleased to say its been accept

The third and final session in the curtailed UKuG mm-Wave contest series takes place on Sunday 18th October, from 0900-1700 GMT (1000 - 1800 BST). Bands are 24GHz, 47GHz, and 76GHz. Roving is permitte