It is a very sad sad day. My first rig, a Yeasu FT-817, is broken. The other day I wanted to turn it on, but it was dead. Shaking the rig gave me all weird noises, so I opened it. Seems that there was an exploded elco in it. All kind of lose smd pieces…
First 10 meter contact!
This week I visiting my parents in Hautes Alpes, France (JN24XM) again. Last sunday evening we arrived and the next morning I did check the wire antenna’s on the roof. They were all broken due to heavy snow slidings. After fixing the open dipole for 20 and the long wire for the other bands on…
Cat moustache antenna
Okay, so I got it finally up and running, my cat moustache antenna! First I build a decent 1:1 balun with an 4C65 core. I did want to attach more then one set of wires on a single feeding point. I did it with a piece of drainage pipe and some nuts and bolts. Insert…