and Amateur Radio stuff
I am probably not like the typical radio amateur. I am doing electronics for my job and I need the radio amateur license for building, preparing, and for having the different set-ups ready for transmitting.
But my life as a radio amateur is therefore relatively easy. I am doing CW which involves only very few pieces of equipment. Not that I am very good in CW but I find that it is the pure art and it is also more challenging. There is more gain in it than in simply doing CB radio.
You may hear me as 9V1MS – which is my main callsign – from my tiny shack in Singapore or as DB4SMA/m when I am mobile in Europe.
This is a collection of short articles about my Ham radio gear. I will not only describe my gear here, but also how to apply it. This is finally the ultimate reason why I have it.
I am more a Ham with a technical spirit. Doing QSOs is great but I am not the one for contests. Once I have fired up my radio, I am happy with one confirmed QSO. I write my QSL card by hand and that’s it. I then do other things in my tiny shack. By that, I come up to 100+ QSOs per year, not more.
This may change one day, but I must first improve my CW. As you can imagine now, I do even not have a microphone for my gear.
Enjoy.
Yaesu FT-757GX
my main and favorite radio
My main radio is a Yaesu FT-757GX from the early eighties of the last century. I was allowed to set up a 12m vertical fishing rod on the rooftop of our house. We live on top floor of our house so that the coax feeder is …
the world’s first decent commercial SDR
Thanks God, I have a second radio in the shack with a second antenna on the rooftop! It is the good old WiNRADiO G-303e. I run it …
Not happy with the setup. What to do?
Reflections on purchasing a new radio.
Now back to the FT-757GX. Ok, one could also replace both the FT-757GX and the G-303e. Please look what are the facts that are driving me when I think about improving my setup.
Morsen – CW
die Sprache der Wahl beim Amateurfunk
Hier gibt es eine Überschneidung auf meiner Homepage. Morsen hat zwar mit dem Amateurfunk zu tun aber eigentlich ist es eine eigene Sprache. Von daher habe ich es in der Rubrik “Sprachen” näher behandelt.
Guckst Du hier:
Funkamateure – Amateurfunker
radio HAMs – radio amadores
Funkamateure sind schon komisch. Fragen Sie mal meine Frau.
Hier eine Geschichte, die ich im Internet gefunden habe. Ich weiß nicht, wer sie geschrieben hat. Vielleicht gibt mir ja mal jemand einen Tip.
“Was mich betrifft, so gestehe ich offen, daß ich keine wie immer gearteten Neidkomplexe gegen irgendeine Gesellschaftsschicht, Kaste, …
Yaesu FT-450
my new radio
For those who follow my homepage it was very clear that one day I will buy a new radio. There is a long article here with the alternatives available.
I have studied so much about the new FT-450 that I was even not eager to try it out once I have bought it. It sits on my …
TecSun TS-2000
a neat lttle Chinese radio
this is going to be an article about the TecSun TS-2000.
I was there in October 2009 and have bought it for EUR …
3/8″ Ham Antennas
The standard threading is a UNF 3/8″ with 24tpi
see also
www.online-schrauben.de/isroot/onlineschraubende/tipstricks/zoll2.htm
Singapore Sling
how to set up a wire antenna into a coconut palm
a harmless wire antenna launcher a little project that became quite famous, please see below …
magnetische Loop-Antennenen
vertical antenna up
This is anbout setting up my my new vertical antenna. Its base is a 6m long 1 3/8″ aluminium tube which is taken up into the lawn at its lower side. The tube is secured to a little roof in the backyard of our …
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