Ron's Radio Corner

Currently I am working on a 145 MHz - 50 MHz transverter. I combined various circuits and built it in Manhattan Style.  The core is a 96 MHz...

I made some nice QSO's on 160m, 1840 kHz, lately. Of course my longwire antenna is much too short for this band, nevertheless I was surp...

I hooked up my FT450 with longwire antenna to explore the 10 meter band. There is a lot of activity ! A lot of stations on 28.074 MHz  FT-8 ...

I found a nice eQSL this morning from Urugay in my inbox. It dates back to 2006. In that time I was quite active with PSK31:

I did some experiments with the receiver IC KT0936M lately. I built a simple SW and MW receiver with this chip. To be able to do some experi...

This week now and then the 4 m band opened because of E s . I made FT8 QSO's with Spain (EA6SX) and Greece (SV2DCD, SV2JAO..) on 70.154 ...

Lately I have been experimenting with a KT0936M module on the medium wave. I discovered that Radio Caroline puts a firm signal strength at 6...

The Satrover QO100 transverter enables you to use the geostationary OQ100 (Es’Hail-2) satellite. I was able to explore this equipment with G...

Some of my projects on this blog are inspired by the radiowork of Roger, G3XBM. I like his transverter designs in particular. I found that R...

During a recent trip to Greece (Attica, Agia Marina) I was able to use one of the radio repeaters near the capital of Athens. The repeater h...