Category Archives: VHF

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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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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