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Choking balun for 160-30 meter band - Choking balun for lower HF and MF bands. (1.8MHz - 10MHz). Requiring a choking balun to isolate the potential RF pick up on the coax cable as it runs past equipment such as computer within the radio room at lower HF and MF frequencies a simple method of winding RG58 coax onto a Powdered Iron Toroid Core was constructed.
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ICOM Tuner Connector - Many Icom radios e.g.7100 have a connector for automatic tuners such as the Icom AH4. The cable supplied by Icom is of a fixed length 10m and is not shielded. Icom recommends to use shielded cable for any length greater than 10m.
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Building a VHF Contest Station - Building an amateur station for competitive radiosport involves a number of critical steps, regardless of the band or bands you focus on. These include, but are certainly not limited to: Station layout, Equipment interconnection and switching, Inter-station interference, Antenna selection. Radio interface with the logging program, CW and voice keyer integration, Rotator control
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V31 Belize Maya Hill Lodge - Home of Club Station V31HQ, The Maya Hill Lodge, is ideal DXing from Central America. The shack is located outside the house as separate house and it is air conditioned. Offer HF VHF UHF equipment and EME setup.
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The DX Shop - The DX Shop Limited are suppliers of high end equipment and manufacturers of the Linear Amp Gemini range of HF to UHF solid state linear amplifiers for the serious Radio Amateur.
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VFC LP Lightning Protection Products - VFC has grown to become the national leader in the lightning protection industry. Protecting facilities and equipment from lightning and transient current by designing and installing lightning protection, grounding, surge protection and lightning warning systems.
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Sierra Radio Systems - Sierra Radio Systems site controllers are used to monitor and control remote radio and equipment sites, often implemented to monitor repeater systems, broadcast equipment, solar power infrastructure, tracking rf power, temperature, voltage, current and switch closure
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Red Pitaya - Established in 2013 produce kits and solutions to build your own SDR transceivers, Skimmer servers and wspr devices for the amateur radio market, and digital test equipment, and learning tools for the academic and research markets.
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Free eBook - Capture the MAGIC of Six Meters - This book provides plenty of insight into how you, too, can Capture the Magic of Six Meters. It covers propagation, equipment, software, antennas, awards and contesting, as well as assistance in finding the magic.
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Amateur Radio Microwave - Introduction - Introdcution to Amateur Radio Microwave. A 21 page presentation of ham radio microwaves concepts for beginners. Frequencies, modes and activities. How to get started, what equipment is needed and some pictures of ham radio microwave station setups
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QRP Portable Station Winter Configuration - An article describing equipment needed to make portable operations evenin winter cold times. The article is completed by a nice video describing not only the radio setup but even the tent and power supply equipment
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Configure FLDigi on MacOSX to IC-7100 - Ho to properly configure the FLDigi software running on a MacOS to connect to the Icom IC-7100. Article includes snapshots of I/O ports configuration settings.
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Everything you needed to know about Radio Receivers and Scanners - Tuning into the airwaves for new and interesting transmissions has fascinated enthusiasts since the very earliest days of radio. As a result of advances in computer and radio technology, the equipment packed radio rooms of the past are now replaced by scanning receivers sometimes just the size of a mobile phone. What can radio receivers/scanners pick up? What types of radio receivers/scanners are there? What can and cannot be monitored legally? Best practice when using a radio receiver/scanner
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Royal Communications International, Inc. - Since 1988, Royal Communications International has been supplying communications equipment designed for the military, professional, and amateur market. We specialize in the sale and service of High Frequency, Single Sideband transceivers that are dependable and easy to use.
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BridgeCom Systems Inc - Our mission is to provide our customers with a communication solution that fits a need and provide high quality customer service. We specialize in the development and sale of communications equipment for land mobile radio, amateur radio, commercial radio and RoIP (Radio Over IP) solutions.
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Repair or Replace Electrolytic Capacitors - For low voltage applications, like cathode bypass capacitors, most vintage types have an axial configuration, which is less common today but still available. Electrolytic power supply caps likely constitute the single worst liability in old audio, radio and test equipment. Rap about Electrolytics, Reforming, Chassis-Mount Replacements, Under-Chassis Installation, Rebuilding Capacitors
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Frequency counter project - This project includes quite a number of useful testing features which were very useful when building other projects. Almost all the components used to construct this frequency counter were scrounged from old circuit boards and junk equipment.
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Home Made Artificial Ground Tuner - Home made Artificial Ground. This article contains a schematics of a custom artificial ground device that can be used to ground your station equipment if you live in an higher floor and cannot effort a proper dedicated ground connection. This Artificial Ground has been designed by Colyn Baillie-Searle GD4EIRP
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Antuino - Antenna Test Equipment - Antuino is an accurate instrument that can be used in the field to measure SWR, field strength, modulation, etc. In the lab, it can be used to sweep filters, measure gain, distortion, frequency response, etc. It works upto 150 Mhz. On the third harmonic, it is usable on 435 Mhz band as well (with reduced sensitivity).
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4m QRP Transverter - There are few equipment for the 4m band, so to get on the band it could be necessary to design and build a simple transverter.
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