A short pictorial demonstrating modifications to the Sanwu SW-HF07 USB sound adapter for use with VKLink nodes. A search on eBay finds what appears to be a suitable CM108 based USB…
Having already had limited success with converting the Stationmaster MK1 to 6m, I decided to try something different... turning it into a 5/8 vertical. I modelled a 5/8 in MMANA.…
Last Friday night (15th), I decided to do attempt some EME contacts with JT65. My station is quite modest to say the least, only 100W to 1 x YU7EF 11…
Further to my earlier post on the use of a 10MHz reference in the KL, I've converted two KL70 exciters to 6m and fed them the same audio with both exciters…
On Tuesday 22/12/15 4 persons made the trip to St Valentines Peak. Those persons being Graeme and John Rand, the helicopter pilot David, and myself. The purpose of the trip…
I had been wanting a better antenna for the SSB portion of 6m for the openings over summer. Having seen how a local amateur built a 2m 11 element YU7EF…
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,…
Borrowing the idea from the NHRC-3.1 CTCSS mod I decided to do the same for the VK5DJ controller. The same idea applies, but with a slightly different interface. We take the mute…
The KL series uses a GFS-210W TCXO as a standard reference which operates at 12MHz. There is a "high-stability" option - a GPS-210X which locks with a frequency stability of…
Recently I have acquired a voting system which can be employed into our repeater system in South. Essentially the system continually monitors multiple receivers, both local and remotely over UHF link and…