Ron's Radio Corner

If you are looking for a small, low budget, VHF/UHF transceiver the KT-8900 from manufacturer QYT from China might be your choice. For unde...

Yesterdag, August 5, I made a nice radio contact via the repeater PI3UTR (145.575 MHz). With my UV-5R porto I had a QSO with Gerrit, PA0GJC/...

There is no excuse anymore not to provide your receiver or transmitter with a frequency counter. For 6 euro's I built a counter which m...

Yesterday I found a box with old components. Some of them were germanium transistors. I must have kept those semiconductors since about 197...

As a result of a request from VERON ("Vereniging voor Experimenteel Radio Onderzoek Nederland") to "Agentschap Telecom",...

Since begin this month a UHF 70cm WebSDR has been activated. The 70 cm antenna of the Software Defined Radio has been located in the centr...

If you want to watch life TV on your PC you might install a DVB-T USB stick these days. A couple of years ago, when those USB sticks were n...

One of the most interesting Do It Yourself kits I saw recently is digital oscilloscope with a 2.4 inch color  TFT display. The scope can sho...

Today I made some QSO's with Israelian stations participating in the Holy Land Contest 2015. Conditions on 10 meter were ok since in 20...

Today I ran into an interesting visualization of Moores Law; the amount of integrated transistors versus time. Each 2 years the amount of ...