Ron's Radio Corner

It is not difficult to receive nearby AM aircraft transmissions in the VHF airband (118 – 136 MHz). The aircraft transmissions use a bandwid...

No, Doggerland is not a new DX entity.  Doggerland was the land between England and Holland/Belgium/Denmark appr. 10,000 years ago. The Nort...

Last FT8 EU contest on 70 cm I participated with my homebrewed 50 Watt UHF amplifier. The amplifier uses an MRF186 in the final stage to boo...

The RF output of my 28 - 70 MHz transverter shows an irritating 3rd harmonic at 210 MHz.  I found a simple Low Pass Filter for 70 MHz at dut...

A couple of months ago I started to trade a bit crypto currency. The idea was to obtain some extra cash for the radiohobby. I was intrigued ...

A spectrum analyser has always been a tool for me that I could not afford. I remember the expensive professional Hewlett Packard and Rohde...

My first visit to VERON A42 clubstation PI4VPO in Hellevoetsluis / Voorne-Putten brought me a nice collection of (paper) QSL cards: Antennas...

Lots of FT-8 signals today on 144.177 MHz. Confirmation of one of the many QSO's today:

  Nice eQSL card from PA6GST received today:

This afternoon some sporadic E clouds were present: A succesful FT-8 QSO on 70.154 MHz with 9A6R over more than 1300 km's. In the evenin...