by Cees (PA1CA) | May 1, 2012 | HAM Blog, Popular
After buying my new (secondhand) Yaesu FT-950 base transceiver I knew I again wanted to do the wideband mod. This is the same mod I did for the Yaesu FT-817 some time ago; I wrote about it in another blog entry. Because the FT-950 is much larger than the FT-817 I...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Apr 21, 2012 | HAM Blog
So after I made my new antenna (described in the previous blogs) I found out that I can hear a lot more stations. With this there also are a lot of stations I don’t want to hear; these are the stations on the frequencies near you that are to strong or are just using...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Apr 14, 2012 | HAM Blog
Just a quick follow up on my previous blog about a U shaped dipole I made and put up in my attic. I decided to make it a “Fan Dipole”. This is a dipole which has one feed point for more than one dipole. Because I’m mostly using the 20 meter band and the 10 meter band...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Mar 31, 2012 | HAM Blog
The title of this blog is a bit misleading; I’m already way past part 1 of any antenna story I have to tell. Because this is the first time I’m actually writing about it I’m gonna call it “part 1” anyway! I recently found out that, although I have a nice dipole for...
by Cees (PA1CA) | Feb 8, 2012 | HAM Blog
As some of you might know, I’m a freelance software developer with a big interest in iPhone and iPad development but lately I haven’t been doing a lot of software development in my spare time. The reason for all of this can be found almost 30 years ago! When I...
