If you’ve been active on the ham bands lately, you may have noticed something exciting — the 10-meter amateur radio band (28 MHz) has been absolutely alive with DX contacts.…
Are you confused by all the different ham radio bands—80 meters, 40 meters, 20 meters, 2 meters—and when to use them? You're not alone. In this comprehensive video guide, let's…
I’m very impressed with this antenna - a Sirio 827 5/8 vertical for CB/11 Meters up to 10 Meters. After many months of planning, it’s finally on the air! Sirio…
In this video I will show how to build a simple ham radio antenna for 10 Meters using just one piece of coax and some wire. So... let's build a…
Since installing the 10m repeater VK7RHF, the receiver has at times suffered during sporadic E openings noise, and what seems like AM modulated signals. The assumption is that this is…
Having removed VK7RHF's transmitter to test at a solar powered site, it was necessary to test standby current consumption. Basic current measurements were made. 750mA was measured as standby. 13A…
On Friday 18th of Dec, Damien 7SD and myself went to install the VK7RHF transmit site to install "one half" of the repeater. The repeater was installed in the rack,…
On Monday 16th of November, Michael 7MRS and myself travelled to Mt.Wellington to replace the single SMD with a Polar 354 6dB vertical. The SMD was removed and the vertical put…
This last weekend I had some spare time to play with the 10m repeater project. I turned my attention to the receiver side of things to see if I could…