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July 8th, 2011: What's Going On Then?
Not a lot of radio activity over the past few months what with settling into retirement and Reading. I've been enjoying exploring areas which I knew well as a child and teenager, lots of cycling and walking.
Project ideas are brewing to keep me busy when the winter arrives. I'm exploring Software Defined Radio as well as the Funcube with the idea of building some sort of HF receiver. Other ideas include a QRP 2m SSB transceiver.
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February 26th, 2011: Bicycle Mobile
I have added a page showing my set up for 2m bicycle mobile. Come the spring I plan to take to the hills!
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February 19th, 2011: New QTH
At the end of January we moved from Southampton to Earley in Reading and are still settling in at the new QTH. Currently I am only active on 2m and 70cms as the TS480SAT is back at Kenwood for repair, it has a strange audio fault and has already had the DSP chip changed and seems to be causing bafflement!
Meanwhile I am missing HF and antenna experimentation. Antennas are a challenge at the new QTH as the garden is very small (about 27 feet by 10 feet) so I am planning a vertical for HF, it will be tuned at the base with an automatic tuner. I have a tri-bander for 6m, 2m & 70cms.
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