First week of September I left for a little one week holiday with the family to Belgium near Froidchapelle. We rented a little cottage and I was able to get QRV as ON/PA1JIM. I packed an extendable antenna mast, a 1:10 MTFT balun from WiMo, my Kenwood TS-590 and forgot the antenna wire. When we…
UV-shield DIY-style
A few weeks now I run my own weather station, a Ultimeter2100 from Peet Bros. At least once a day I check my weather data against that from the neighboring Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI). It turns out that my temperature readings are off a few degrees (too high) only in the morning. Which is…
Second TM-D710
After I bought my first Kenwood TM-D710 in 2012 I discovered this was the ideal rig for me, mobile as well as stationary. I use it primarily in the shack and took it with me in the car when went mobile. I figured it would be convenient to have a second TM-D710 main-unit in the…