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

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

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

In the past I have happily run Airscout and SDR console on the same 64bit Windows 10 PC. I tried to use it last night and I observed 2 things. Airscout would not stay on top, it just kept minimising r

A word of warning, something I only discovered by accident DO NOT store a blank message in the CW memory. In other words, when in programming mode, the result you would get by pressing [rtn] directly

I came to switching on one time and it light up, but nothing on the display. The +15 v rail is 4.7v The -15 v rail is -3.1v. I think the minus rail uses the plus rail as a reference so it may well be

Hi Chris, I have some spare 141 chassis, already robbed of a few bits but you cable will be in there im sure. Cheers David -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https

Hi guys Im looking for some help regarding the HP141 spectrum analyser and thought the best place to look for some help is here. There is a cable (08443-60009) required to inter-connect the 8443A to t

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

Hi All Does anyone know the correct designation for a crystal holder which looks like HC49U but is smaller, the dimensions being 8mmx7mmx2mm HxWxD. The Chipbank has a lot this size and although I have

By a stupidity I blew up the control board in the 33321 attenuator in my HP8593 SA, so the attenuation itself is ok but the control logic inside the attenuator is broken. Normally the RF part of such

I have just obtained a ADF3451 via Amazon. It seems to work OK but is there any windows software to control it? Neil G3RIR