This is (apparently) how shops clean radios before sale – although in fairness, they probably do it a little more vigorous than I did! If you know of a better way, let me know!
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British guys? Do you live in Midlands? This is for you 🙂
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My New 2-Station Ham Radio Shack
Callum’s Remodelling includes Red Paint, TS-990s, TS-590SG, IC-9700, TS-2000, Create RC5-1, RatPak coax switch, Genius 8×2, Acom 2000 amp, Tokyo Hy-Power HL700-B amp, tons of batteries, a Victron Smatcharger and more! Oh! And more red paint (and lots of soldering). What do you think? Callum.
I might have bitten off more than I can chew(!) in the time-period I have set myself.. but the Quad is on track, the new field is still coming along and I’m half-way through a complete re-modelling of the shack. Tune in! Callum.
Not your normal review. I hate HT (Walkie Talkies). Correction. I love the IDEA of an HT but I’m too far away from a repeater to ever make use of one and I’m miles from anyone else with one.. However, if I had to buy one, this would probably be on the list. I phoned Mike M0MSN for his opinion.
Learn how to build this HexBeam on a budget. Callum.
Full Parts on Colins channel. This is his HexBeam playlist as discussed:
Parts list etc here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ftLL1dIJ2aD1lRSk7CY7_P8sdURkuglZ
Tilt over towers can be very dangerous in the hands of inexperienced users – however I have experience of a falling derrick system to raise and lower an antenna mast. Of course, you can use self-supporting towers, hydraulic towers, wind-up towers, trailer towers etc but I need something that COULD be removed with very few moving parts and is fairly economical. This is my plan. What do you think? Callum.
The standard "UHF" PL259 RF "male" connector mates with a "female" SO239. N-Type is similar but they are not compatible with each other or interchangeable at all. I have ordered some SO239 connectors with a particularly long thread-body. I am interested in your opinion!
PS – Jim’s video was good in that it demonstrates that not all N-Typle connectors are the same. He got some really interesting results. Jim’s video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-62aHGnSz8
I don’t normally repair things because I’m not a good repair technician. I would normally send this away for repair BUT it seemed an easy fix and I got lucky this time. Fluke 15B+ Fuse Replacement! Callum.
We formally have the go-ahead for the new Antenna Field! Let’s chat about progress on the Tower idea and the Cubical Quad antenna 🙂 Callum.
https://youtu.be/9M7bTWxlPHY – This is the old tower project with falling derrick
https://youtu.be/3r9ff32j9Yo – Original Cubical-Quad video