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…
MORE SSTV from SURA
Saturday, 21st of August 2021 town of Nizhny Novgorod celebrated it’s 800th anniversary. In honor of this event, SURA station sent several SSTV images using their huge transmitter site. SURA is similar system as USA based HAARP. I got all the pictures sent from the SURA, but due to local thunder and lightning some of…
MLA-30, any good for anything?
Back in August I read about MLA-30 a (very) cheap active loop antenna that was said to be at least a good one, if not even as good as the more expensive “original” loops. I wanted to test how well it might perform here at my city home in the middle of huge QRM and…
The All New remote RIG – Part 1.1 “Testing the HF shield”
One problem in my system is that I need to power it using cheap switched-mode power adapters. They are – well, cheap, universal, small, easy to get – and a huge source of wideband HF interference. The best solution would be to replace all these power supplies with real transformers and linear regulators, but for…
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…