As a rather old fashioned radio ham in many ways, I’ve always had a hankering to build a linear amplifier for the HF bands.  I’ve got lots of ‘junk boxes’ with stuff in them for different ideas such as: 813’s, QY3-125’s, 811A’s, 4CX250B’s etc… plus various transformers and other essential ‘stuff’. There are lots of […]

EasyPal DRM…or Digital SSTV as many people seem to know it as I was first shown EasyPal by a ham radio friend and was astonished at the quality and resolution of the pictures he was receiving…nothing like the lo-res stuff from MMSSTV and the like. Once I got back to the shack, I downloaded the […]

On Friday the 10th October 2014, Ofcom published a document that included the intention to release an additional 1MHz of spectrum on the 2m (144MHz) band…on a temporary basis. Available via a Notice of Variation (NoV) to full license holders only, the frequencies are from 146 to 147MHz…giving a full 3MHz on 2m 🙂 From […]