G1KQH's blog

 A reminder that you may want to visit the blog of Steve G1KQH.

See http://g1kqh.blogspot.com

New uBITX

Steve G1KQH reports on his blog about the new version of the Indian uBITX HF transceiver.

See https://g1kqh.blogspot.com/2019/12/ubitx-v6-turns-up-heat.html?spref=fb&m=1

Steve G1KQH's Blog

You may be interested in Steve's blog. Steve is G1KQH.

See http://g1kqh.blogspot.com/

QSX rig and the G1KQH blog

There is more data and a video link on Steve G1KQH's blog about the QSX HF rig from Hans Summers.

See http://g1kqh.blogspot.com/

Useful Website

Steve, G1KQH has sent me a link, which has a lot of useful links.

See http://www.solorb.com/elect/

Amateur files - useful link

My friend Steve G1KQH has sent me an interesting link. These are amateur radio related files in pdf format.

See http://www.n5dux.com/ham/files/pdf/ .

uBitx - multiband HF kit

Steve G1KQH has brought to my attention a multi-band version of the Bitx from India.  Most bits are SMA and on the board already. The kits sell for $109 ($129 after Christmas), which is excellent value. If you get a chance, read Steve's blog at http://g1kqh.blogspot.co.uk/ .

See http://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx/

New HF low cost radio design

My thanks again to Steve G1KQH for finding this:

Ashhar Farhan the designer of the BITX has now come up with the ubitx Multiband HF

http://www.phonestack.com/farhan/ubitx/ubitx.html

See the Bitx20 group for more details here:

https://groups.io/g/BITX20

There is a video here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-yLof4sTtE

£11 for a dual band hand held?

This came from Steve G1KQH:

A Dual band HT .... wait for it £11.00!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BAOFENG-2014-UV-5RA-UV-5R-Dual-Band-136-174-400-480-MHz-FM-Ham-Two-way-Radio-/262743557532?hash=item3d2cbc859c:g:LWYAAOSwj85YPwGe

This includes free postage from China! Just how do they do it?

MDT40 kit

Steve, G1KQH is building a kit from Australia - the MDT40. Because of family commitments, this is going slower than he'd like. The kit is 84 Australian dollars complete if buying outside Australia. It is a DSB rig for 40m available in 2 frequency ranges.

See http://g1kqh.blogspot.co.uk/ .

IC7300 video

This was received from Steve G1KQH yesterday. I think he expects me to buy one. With no FT817 replacement shown at Dayton, he may well be right, when the price drops and the bugs are ironed out, but I am in no hurry. It uses 15 band-pass filters in the front end. These stop overload in most, but not all, cases.

15 bandpass filters Roger?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaWmFoLp9Bc

73 Steve
http://www.g1kqh.talktalk.net/

From Steve G1KQH - Spybot anti-beacon for Windows

This came in on an email from Steve G1KQH. I have not tried the link.

Someone sent me this link stops them spying on you!

Seems to work

https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/

73 Steve
http://www.g1kqh.talktalk.net/

Radio Amateur's Exam

It is different these days but I took my RAE on May 13th 1966. Thanks to a link from Steve G1KQH, I can see the paper I took. I have to say I do not recall any of the questions today. It was a long time ago, HI.

"Old RAE papers, do you really know your stuff?:

http://www.g4dmp.co.uk/rae/

73 Steve
http://www.g1kqh.talktalk.net/"

More (about China) via Steve G1KQH

This came from Steve yesterday. He like his Chinese bargains!

China cuts TAX, Cuts, not increase! Standby for even Cheaper Baofengs!

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-05/01/c_135327077.htm

73 Steve
http://www.g1kqh.talktalk.net/

Steve G1KQH - NOT amateur radio

Steve did look for deals on eBay yesterday and found the Bluetooth smart watch for a little over £4. See yesterday's post. I do not understand how they do it for the price and ship it half way around the world.

Steve also sent me a link in which you can check MOT history.
See https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

PCB supplier?

This came to me last evening via Steve G1KQH:

This link came from an article I read in PW recently, could be useful especially for a club:

http://www.3pcb.com/

73 Steve

http://g1kqh.blogspot.co.uk/

More from G1KQH

Steve G1KQH has just sent me this:

Here is one for you 817 Fans.  Just flagged up on me when I was on Facebook, so you know as much as me at the moment but it looks good.

http://817companion.com/

73 Steve
http://g1kqh.blogspot.co.uk/

More from G1KQH

This came from Steve last night:

Just caught this little write up:

TYT TH-9800

http://www.examiner.com/article/tyt-quad-bander-offers-a-lot-of-radio-at-a-modest-price

73 Steve
http://www.g1kqh.talktalk.net/

Dual banders at stupid prices!

This from Steve G1KQH earlier:-

Oh the price just gets daft!

How can they make them and ship them for 12 quid never mind make a profit?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Baofeng-Black-UV-5R-V2-Dual-Band-136-174-400-520-MHz-FM-Ham-Two-way-Radio-HOT-/321944900286?hash=item4af56952be:g:XgUAAOSwKrxUY~G9

Hang on!

Its just got dafter!

Dual band for what £9.99!!!!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Handheld-Radio-Scanner-2-Way-Digital-Transceiver-Portable-Antenna-Police/321947446216?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3Dd51034fd97fc4f36a82b39263925807d%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D6%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D321944900286

73 Steve G1KQH
http://www.g1kqh.talktalk.net/

Steve's blog (G1KQH)

A reminder to check out Steve's blog from time to time:

More from the Blog:

http://g1kqh.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/usb-simple-idea-of-attachment.html

 

73 Steve 

http://www.g1kqh.talktalk.net/