Amateur Radio Station
The summer of 2023 has ended, as well as portable operations. What I have noticed during my activations is that QRP can be a lot of fun, but also too challenging. If you want to continue to participate in the vast majority of stations, you will have to do your best to make yourself stand…
This summer (2023). I am more active than ever portable. At the beginning of the season I started with my IC-705 to get out and work QRP. At the same time I have also been able to play a lot with various antenna systems to see what works well at which location, and what kind…
On July 26, 2023, I gave a demonstration at the NVRA on how to connect via one of the TEVEL satellites. We were lucky, because on this evening we had a nice pass with 60+ degrees elevation. The hardware used for this evening: Radio: Icom IC-705 with 5W controlled with PSTRotator for doppler correction. (this…
If you have some time on the weekend to work portable. then you don’t want to spend a lot of time setting up and connecting my equipment. especially if this is the same setup every time. I had several of the same fish carrying bags lying around. So I had to do something with that….
Recently I was invited to my old model flying club for a cup of coffee 🙂 Excellent opportunity to test my IC-705 in peace. Used antenna: an EFHW on a 13m portable mast. At home I had already prepared the 1:49 transformer and 34uH coil. On location, only tuning the EFHW remained. With the LiteVNA…