by Tony | Oct 12, 2024 | Amateur Radio, Projects
Our work amateur radio club, WA0RC, is very lucky in that we have been given a dedicated room for a club shack and have roof access. However, it is in what used to be a mechanical room, and as such, it is in the middle of the building with no windows. This means there...
by Tony | Jul 29, 2024 | Amateur Radio, Projects
I recently bought an old FT-817 with the intent of using it to get back on the linear satellites. Upon receiving it, I found that no matter which connector I set the antenna output to (front or rear), it always transmitted from the rear SO-239 antenna connector. As my...
by Tony | Jul 22, 2024 | Amateur Radio, Projects
I’ve seen several ham radio clipboard mounting solutions aimed at portable operations like POTA and SOTA, so I thought I’d take a shot at making my own for my QRP Labs QMX, American Morse Equipment Mini-B Paddle, and NiMH battery pack (affiliate link). I...
by Tony | Apr 28, 2024 | Amateur Radio, Projects
UPDATE (5/12/2024): Turns out my little DIY project below is not so novel. Check out OZ1JHM’s website to see their solution which is basically the same solution as mine, but posted long ago! I recently came across VBand, CW Hotline, and the USB Paddle Interface...
by Tony | Jan 20, 2023 | Amateur Radio, Projects
As is the seemingly the craze in ham radio, I recently picked up several LiFePO4 batteries of varying capacities to use with my Yaesu FT-991a. I was able to get these as part of the Amazon Vine program, so there is no particular reason I chose the models in question:...
by Tony | Jan 18, 2023 | Amateur Radio, Projects
After buying my Yaesu FT-991a and using it for Field Day, I realized that some functions are a bit annoying to control. In particular, getting the voice keyer going requires the display to show the specific recording buttons for operation. This blocks the waterfall as...