A short story about metamorphosis from SWL DX’er to a HAM Radio Amateur. After I got bitten by the SDR Bug back in -12 I updated and upgraded my SDR equipment every year. Normally this meant that I bought and built new SDR receivers, computers, antennas etc and upgraded my SDR system from one single…
UPS RF shield – quick test results
Yesterday I wrote a post about my latest try to level down the interference caused by computers, power supplies and other peripherals using simple Faraday’s cage. The UPS is huge noise generator – or it should I say, it was! In picture below, on the left hand side this is the noise generated by the…
Testing the BASE interference for remote RIG update
While waiting my trip to my remote site I started to plan a new RF shielding and interference protection. After all I’m going to replace 99% of the computer HW I have at my remote site and it is known fact that computers are the worst noise generator one can have. The new system is…
SSTV DX Gallery
I got so excited about SSTV that sometimes when I do not use my system to other DX’ng I have it on 24/7 and tuned to 14230KHz and let RX-SSTV to automatically decode and save received SSTV transmission to my OneDrive album. This album is the RAW Save To -location of the receiver software RX-SSTV…
The All New remote RIG – Part 1 “The POC”
I had a plan to create all new remote Rig already during 2018, but due to some problems to get parts to it (the main computer) this has now been moved to be “The Project – 2019”. The Idea: * Fully remote controlled – power supplies included * Windows 10 based main computer * RaspberryPi…