Blue Bird Conventional School Bus on the International 3800 chassis & cowl located in Erie, Pennsylvania:

The antenna arrived with Fedex last Friday. Box was a little beat up, the top was opened on the box so missing a few bolts from the bracket and the Allen key. So not the greatest start but the antenna was fine inside so all would be well and ready for action. Update Below for […]

Antenna Monday “Opek HCS-100” — Simonthewizard

I am now officially activated on 1296 SSB. 10 years ago the Toronto area had 6  1.2 GHz repeaters and today we have none. Icom was a popular radio for this band. So now lets look at 1296 SSB. I am using a Yaesu FT-817 as the 2m IF, a SG Labs Transverter and a […]

VHF September Contest on 3 and Half Modes and 1296 Firsts times 2 — ve3ips

Thanks to PA1CA A few years ago there was a rumor going around at the JARL Convention that a new version of the Yaesu ft-817 would come on the market “pretty soon”. This new model would be called the Yaesu FT-818. The FT-817nd has been the favorite of many radio amateurs for as long as […]

Whatever happened to the Yaesu FT-818? — ve3ips

This is a purpose built tuner for the Yaesu FT-817/817ND and 818 QRP radio It can handle 20 watts and uses latching relays to conserve its built in (4 AA) battery power It can remember 2000 memory points to quicken tuning withing 2 seconds Coverage is 1.8 to 54 Mhz and it is continuous so […]

LDG Z-817 Review and there is a BIG SECRET Reveal — ve3ips

Yaesu has released their new update to the FT-817 after over 20 years and it’s a boring update and may not be a big success as hoped to be. VERY DISAPPOINTING YAESU AND YOU ARE LETTING THE CHINESE EAT YOUR BOWL OF RAMEN NOODLES. Martin Lynch and Sons the largest UK stockist for Yaesu is […]

New FT-818 Yaesu is not really a New QRP rig its the same rig with a new Battery — ve3ips

ISS 437.800 MHz cross band FM repeater activated International Space Station – Image Credit NASA At 01:02 GMT on September 2 a cross band FM amateur radio repeater with a downlink on 437.800 MHz was activated on the International Space Statio. The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) announcement reads: The ARISS team is […]

ISS 437.800 MHz cross band FM repeater activated — ve3ips

Modeling the T2FD L. B. Cebik, W4RNL The “terminated, tilted folded dipole” (T2FD) antenna has been subject to much recent conversation, some of which has come my way in the form of questions about modeling the antenna. So I decided to take a systematic look at models of the T2FD. The two models […]

Modelling the T2FD W4RNL Cebik — ve3ips

GQRP Convention 2020 The GQRP club has released a detailed agenda for its Online Convention 2020, taking place on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September. All times in the agenda are shown as UTC and you will be able to use the many online calculators to work out those times in your zones. Here is an example for London, […]

GQRP Convention Sept 5 and 6 Virtual via Zoom — ve3ips

The good autumn weather was used to set up a short Asia/South America Two Wire Beverage for testing. Hardware as ever from RemoteQTH.com

Autumn Beverage. — remotedx