Ron's Radio Corner

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...

The little KT0936M receiver IC has surprised me. To find out and explore the possibilties of this chip I made a simple platform. A multiturn...