Thursday, 30 July 2015

Checking the input/output of a soundcard - use with an FT-450D

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On the Facebook group for Ham Radio Deluxe somebody had posted a link to a video highlighting a "bug" in soundcards that use a par...
Monday, 27 July 2015

Working SOTA stations

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I have one of the rigs on S20 most of the time I'm in the shack listening for local FM contacts. Occasionally I hear operators calling C...
Friday, 24 July 2015

Noisy 20m band and quiet 15m band

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I normally work the 20 and 15m bands in the morning through into the late afternoon. Over the last few months this has been really lucrative...
Thursday, 16 July 2015

Tuning out QRM on datamodes using the Yaesu FT-450D with DM-780 and Ham Radio Deluxe

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The standard way of operating a datamode such as PSK-31 is to leave the filter width as wide as you can and tune to the operating fre...
Monday, 13 July 2015

Diamond V-2000 triband vertical review - a replacement for an older Diamond X-50 dual bander

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My old Diamond X-50 The new Diamond V-2000 in situ The 6m inverted V is pointing east  to Europe Diamond X-50 As mentioned ...
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Sunday, 12 July 2015

Yaesu FT-450D using the internal ATU at the same time as an external ATU

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I have an external ATU made by LDG, The Z-100Plus Autotuner, connected to the rig with a short section of 50ohm cable (500mm long). I use th...
Thursday, 9 July 2015

Avair AV-601 review

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I have had an old AEC SWR-50A for the last 35 years and it has finally given up the ghost. To be quite honest it was never really good and n...