Last night my good friend Fred, PA3YH was visiting me. We’ve made a 1:1 balun for my new multiband dipole. I did think Fred has a funny name for such a antenna: cat-mustache-antenna. The design of the antenna is still in my head mainly. But soon I will make a drawing of it and I’ll…
Antenna problems
Last weekend I’ve done some work on my multi band open dipole. Seems that the wires for 40m, 20m and 10m where all too long. That way the antenna was not resonant inside those bands but lower. So last weekend I went on the roof with a cutting tool. After a few hours tweaking the…
First steps with PSK31
Last weekend I’ve experimented with psk31 for the first time. Made a really simple setup. Connected my girlfriends laptop (the only Windows one in the house) directly to my FT-817 with 2 mini-jack cable (audio in and out) and the data-cable. Run Ham Radio Deluxe. Could get it to work very well. After a few…