30 Jun 2009

SixBox QRP 6m AM rig closer to completion

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Today I did a full rebuild of the 6m QRP AM transceiver on a much smaller (dead bug style) board so that it will fit in a small diecast (or ...
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29 Jun 2009

SixBox 6m AM QSO

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A solid QSO this evening with G6ALB (2 miles away) on 6m AM using the 50mW SixBox rig with vertical antennas at each end. In the other dire...

G3XBM webpages have moved

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Today I switched my webspace from NTL to Google Sites. I've been having issues with FTP connection to the NTL webspace for weeks and the...

In praise of the Asus EEE Netbook PC

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For over a year I've used a little 7 inch screen Asus PC701 Netbook PC running the preloaded Linux operating system "as is" a...
28 Jun 2009

SixBox 6m AM (improvements)

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Been doing some more work on the SixBox AM transceiver and have come up with a simpler and better TX lineup. I abandoned the osc/multiplie...
25 Jun 2009

Lenticular (lee wave) clouds

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The last few days I've been in the Yorkshire Dales area of the UK and was treated to a sight I'd not seen before - lenticular cloud ...
22 Jun 2009

A very basic 4m AM transceiver

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In the coming days I am planning to modify my SixBox 6m AM QRP breadboard to 4m so that I can have a first 4m QSO using my own callsign. As...
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21 Jun 2009

Cambridge Radio Club is 90

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Today, the Cambridge and District Amateur Radio Club held a 90th birthday picnic at the village hall in Foxton, Cambridgeshire. The weather...

Transatlantic 6m summer super DX - what mode?

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The usual assumption for the super-DX across the Atlantic from Europe to the Caribbean and S.America is multi-hop sporadic-E. Certainly the...
20 Jun 2009

QRP 6m multi-hop Es SSB QSO

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Just switched on the FT817 at 0820z and worked EA8CQS (Canary Is) on 6m SSB with 5W to the vertical. DX was 3010kms . He was quite weak so ...