Category Archives: VHF

How to enable cross band repeater on an Icom ID-5100E

Posted on June 15, 2020 by g6nhu

How to enable cross band repeater mode and extended transmit on the Icom ID-5100E Continue reading →

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Digital audio noise on receive when using WIRES-X

Posted on May 29, 2020 by g6nhu

Back in February, I bought myself a Yaesu FTM-100DE with the intent to use it connected to a PC for WIRES-X. In the meantime, I’ve been using it to talk to friends via a YSFReflector and I wrote about how … Continue reading →

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Installing a radio into my car

Posted on July 17, 2019 by g6nhu

About a year ago I changed my car and it’s taken a while to get around to fitting the radio into it. I’ve missed having a wireless in the car and recently resorted to keeping a handheld in the glove … Continue reading →

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Visiting GB6NT at Walton-on-the-Naze

Posted on August 23, 2018 by g6nhu

A few days ago was the International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend and a group of locals under the umbrella of Colchester Radio Amateurs operated a special event station using the callsign GB6NT from the Naze Tower at Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex. This … Continue reading →

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Updated guide to setting up an APRS RX only iGate using a Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR dongle and a pre-built image

Posted on April 13, 2018 by g6nhu

** image has been updated as of 21/04/2018 to resolve the problems some people had booting their Pi ** This post is an updated version of the original article I wrote in February 2017.  It’s using Raspbian Stretch rather than … Continue reading →

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My amateur radio station in 1991

Posted on May 28, 2017 by g6nhu

I was recently looking through some old photographs and I found some pictures of my old radio shack and aerials from when I still lived at home.  These photos would have been taken in the second half of 1991. The … Continue reading →

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New aerials for VHF/UHF (2m/70cms) and 28MHz (10m)

Posted on March 14, 2017 by g6nhu

Over the years I’ve used a few different VHF/UHF aerials here and the one I always found the best was my old Diamond X500.  I bought that when I still lived at home with my parents and it moved here with … Continue reading →

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