amateur radio

March 144/432MHz from gm4aff 248 days old

Haven't done much radio now since the Stew Perry Contest back in December. Decided to bite the bullet and get the 2m amplifier fixed, and try to rekindle ...

CW Skimmer from gm4aff 290 days old

I've spent the last few weeks playing with Skimmer. I use a Softrock SDR receiver, and a Clifton lab Z10000 buffer amp on the IF output of a K3. The ...

CQ WW CW Preps (Cont'd) from gm4aff 353 days old

I spent most of Saturday and all of Sunday daylight hours working on antennas. I hauled up the 160m dipole on Saturday morning only to discover that ...

CQ WW CW 2008 Preparations from gm4aff 360 days old

Last year I went to CT3 (Madeira) to do CQ WW CW. This year, as my wife is donating one of her kidneys to my oldest son, and the transplant operation ...