Category Archives: VHF

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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How to replace the noisy fan in an Icom ID-5100 with a much quieter one

Posted on February 23, 2017 by g6nhu

I’m a happy owner of two Icom ID-5100 radios, one is mounted in the car and I use the other one in the shack on low power for working the local repeaters.  It doesn’t get much use but I’m monitoring GB3CL … Continue reading →

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MB7UIV is back

Posted on February 17, 2017 by g6nhu

A little history In January 2000 I started running the first licensed APRS Internet gateway in the UK originally with the callsign GB7UIV.  Within a week of experiments starting on the 26th January 2000, the gateway was on air and … Continue reading →

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Setting up an APRS RX only iGate using a Raspberry Pi, RTL-SDR dongle and a pre-built image

Posted on February 3, 2017 by g6nhu

After my previous post, it was suggested that an easier way to set up a receive only APRS iGate would be to provide a pre-built image which only needs slight tweaking to go live.  That seemed like a good idea to … Continue reading →

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A guide to setting up an APRS receive only iGate using a Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR dongle

Posted on February 2, 2017 by g6nhu

I originally bought a Raspberry Pi back in October 2012 but as I didn’t have a specific purpose in mind for it, I quickly sold it again.  A few months ago I decided to play around with a Pi again … Continue reading →

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I’m not dead!

Posted on August 17, 2014 by g6nhu

I know I’ve not updated this blog for some months but don’t panic, I’m not actually dead! Although I’ve not done much operating this year, I have still been playing radio.  I’ve been melting a lot of solder building WSPR … Continue reading →

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