I recently purchased a Wouxun KG-UV9P handheld radio. I’d been looking for a new radio for a while to replace a series of dead Chinese radios and my Yaesu VX-3R. My non-negotiable, minimum criteria for the radio were as follows: Dual band 144/440 mhz bands At least 5 watts on 2 meters High quality build […]
I just completed building the “Frog Sounds HAM Radio QRP Kit Telegraph CW Transceiver Receiver Radio Station V3” available on Ebay for $15 shipped from China. Some notes on this kit: The instructions are terrible. Some are in Chinese. You will definitely need some kind of magnifying glass or goggles to differentiate the values of […]
I have built the WSPR kit that I purchased from the Net – it is working and my signal is being picked up by WSPR trackers in a 500 mile radius on 40m. I expect that to improve tonight. The kit was fairly advanced for me but I am (was) a beginner before this kit […]
These are the books I used to pass my Technician, General and Extra exams:
Brought my radio, 20m ham stick and a bottle of wine (shh) down to the DC waterfront and operated mobile for an hour or so just around sunset. Beautiful night. Tried to break through the Desecheo Island dxpedition pileup with no success. Still a beautiful night. That is the ‘pirate ship’ steaming by, it is […]