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This is the first opportunity that I’ve had to get out the portable PSK-31 Amateur Radio station and it does work, though I suspect a better antenna is called for. In the picture you can see the Yaesu FT-817 portable HF/VHF/UHF transceiver, LDG Electronics Z11 automatic antenna tuner (atu), CG Antenna SB-2000 USB radio interface [...]

I am a licenced Radio Amateur and have been for nearly twenty years – however there’s little more than a couple of thousand contacts in my logbook. I know, it’s shameful. I mostly operate on VHF (FM and SSB) and for a number of good reasons. Firstly, my garden is pitifully small, no room for [...]

I trained as a Radio Officer with Cable & Wireless in the early eighties and worked on the venerable, and much loved, Racal RA17 HF receiver. It’s a big beast, extremely well made, stable and very easy to use – ask anyone who’s had one, they’re great.
I obtained my RA17 back in the early 90s [...]