Category: Ham Radio

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Behringer XM8500 for Ham Radio

My recent foray into amateur radio audio quality has had me looking at microphones, and since the audio process I just bought has an input for dynamic microphones, I got to researching those. I...

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UR6QW Audio Processor

Please read about how you can help UR6QW in Ukraine here Edit: the setup which I use now is detailed in this post. Read on for the review…Also: UR6QW EQ Version 7 is out...

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LMR-400 for Ham Radio?

I see lots and lots of posts from people extolling the virtues of using LMR-400 coaxial cable in their ham radio setups. LMR (Land Mobile Radio) cable was developed by Times Microwave Systems as...

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WSPR Antenna Comparison

Having recently raised a Off-Center Fed Dipole, and figured out how to use WSPR with my FT-991, I thought it would be interesting to compare the OCFD with my 35′ End Fed Wire. Getting...

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New Call Sign

New call sign is official, so the site changes to reflect it! Since I’ve been getting into HF more and more, having an eleven-syllable call sign has been rather a chore. I managed to...

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FT-991 Hardware Upgrade Kit

Final update: See my upgraded FT-991 in action here. I bought a Yaesu FT-991 transceiver last year. Shortly after that, Yaesu decided to surprise us (me) by releasing the FT-991A, for more or less...

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Handheld Power Obsession

Or, also known as “linear units in a logarithmic world”. Among the cheap handheld radio community, especially after the release of the Baofeng BF-F8HP, there seems to be this huge obsession with RF transmit...

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FTRestore

The other evening, I decided it’d be a good idea to update my FT-991 with the latest firmware.Aside from this being a good idea generally, to keep up with the latest and greatest improvements...

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Frequency Shift Keying (FSK)

Almost everyone has heard of FM, but not everyone has heard of FSK. Frequency Shift Keying is a modulation scheme which utilizes changes in the frequency of the carrier wave to communicate data. For...