How cool is it for a ham to temporarily change your call to aeronautical mobile (PA1JIM/AM) during a once in your lifetime experience? Even more so when you can do that from an airliner at 38000 feet up in the air? The other day my good buddy and associate at Pepper IT-solutions VliegPiet made me…
New radio in the shack: Kenwood TM-742E
The Kenwood TM-742E A while back I bought a second hand radio: the Kenwood TM-742E. A great radio with 2m, 70cm and 23cm module! The man who sold it is a heavy smoker, so I had to clean the rig intensively. But after doing a good job the radio is like brand new. No scratch…
Latest updates on the WSPR-RX: WSPR-RX 2
Latest situation of the WSPR-RX A while ago I did build my first 30m WSPR-RX to participate in the WSPR-challenge. I must admit it is very addictive! It did not took long before I was building my second WSPR-RX. This time a little bigger since the first one was too much miniature. Also I wanted…