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The Great South African G90 2021 Tour

March 13, 2021 - 10:36 am

I used to own a Yaesu FT-857D, three of them, in fact. With them I made all sorts of contacts: straight contacts, QRP digital contacts, mobile FM contacts, and they even pushed my FL2100Z amplifier to full output when I needed to. I loved them and trusted them. While the screen might have been a…

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The QCX – a Nifty Little Gadget

March 5, 2018 - 10:40 am

So yesterday (it was a Sunday) I had a lot to do, but nothing more important than to cut open the wrappings of the 20m QCX kit that I purchased from QRP-Labs a few months ago. Yes, it was still lying in its protective wrappings after all this time. Work is seriously interfering with my…

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No Sound from my SDR

April 15, 2016 - 8:39 am

And in other news, I’m trying to play with this cute little SDR receiver (the cuteness which I am sharing with you in another post), but I’m having mega problems. Don’t get me wrong: The issue is not SDR or this cute little Rx. I own and operate a Flex-1500 which has quietly become my…

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WSPRing is addictive

November 5, 2015 - 8:29 am

Like the mermaid calling the sailor, this mode called WSPR seems to be calling me back every time. Circumstances pushed me out of the house into my new outside semi-underground shack which made me QRT for a while while I was painting and renovating, but the first thing I did (after making the few compulsary…

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Falklands is a mere WSPR away

June 8, 2015 - 10:55 am

The last thing I did last night was to make peace between my laptop, my Flex-1500 SDR, and the various VAC and VSP drivers and whatever else was struggling to co-exist in the apparently too small memory of my Windows 7 computer. So can you imagine the delightful surprise I got this morning: I switched…

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Flex-1500 – Starting the SDR journey

May 31, 2015 - 9:20 am

I might be older, but I’m very young at heart when it comes to technology. I love playing with all the latest gadgets and adopting my hobby to the emerging technologies. One example would be that I only run solid-state amplifiers (watch out for my series of articles on building my own). I also talk…

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