My latest project, after setting the MB6IEA gateway, will be to try setting up a UHF repeater. Last year I obtained a number of Motorola GM350 UHF radios in a couple of old rack mount units that had been used as some form of repeater. The radios are working and appear to be linked to […]
The Newbury and District Amateur Radio Society(NADARS) are running an Intermediate courses in 2023. I did my Foundation course with NADARS and they run an excellent course. The RSGB defines the syllabus for the three levels of Amateur Radio Licence. Each License requires a separate exam, which these days can be done on line. Training […]
The Newbury and District Amateur Radio Society annual rally returned to the Newbury Showground in 2022. Nadars will be running the rally, at the Newbury show ground, on Sunday 25th of June 2023 More details can be found https://www.nadars.org.uk/rally.asp
Hi, You can change the colour on the Xiegu X6100 for the TX Power and Volume displays by a simple amendment on the radio. This can be done safely using a SSH session. This only applies to firmware version 1.1.5 You need to connect to the radio via SSH. I use wifi to do this […]
NADARS, my local club, held their annual junk sale for a couple of weeks ago. It is normally annual but Covid, as with everything else, got in the way last year. Not having been to such a sale before I was not sure what to expect but the hall held a number of tables with […]
I recently noticed that my broadband speed seemed to much less than it should be, I have a direct fibre connection that should run at 1Gb. The measured speed seems to be around 100Mb at this computer. I ran some a tests suggested by Virgin that indicated that there was a problem, Virgin came to […]
Today I received notification that Yaesu had changed the call sign on my HRI-200 to MB6IEA. Time then to start and test the new gateway First I changed the call sign and room name for the HRI-200. The system checks with Yaesu prior to enabling the change. Then I added the assigned frequency 434.475Mhz and […]
I have decided to change the use I make of my FTM-400 and the linked HRI-200. Up to now the FTM-400 was used to drive a dummy load on low power (5 watts) and provided my FT-991 and FT2D with access to Wires-x. This worked reasonably well but had a number of drawbacks, mainly that […]
So after I passed my Foundation the first radio i bought was the ubiquitous Baofeng UV-5R plus . I wanted something i could use quickly with minimum setup and to communicate to the other members of my club. The main hurdle with the UV5R is programming the radio. This can be achieved using the CHIRP […]
Having recently qualified I don’t have a large selection of equipment nor a lot of space in my shack, or to be more correct my office. The choice of radio was limited and ideally would be a ‘shack in a box’. After some thought and much time looking at reviews and Youtube videos I went […]