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My little pixie

April 16, 2010 – 22:37

This is my newest radio. It’s called a Pixie II. It also happens to be the first amateur-band transmitter I’ve ever made. These things are pretty cool. It is a continuous wave (CW) (or morse code) transceiver operating at a fixed frequency determined by a crystal on an HF band. Mine’s configured for 80 metres [...]

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On Doing It Wrong

August 19, 2009 – 18:28

I’m not one to give up on a bad idea if I think I have half a chance of making it work for a while. So it was that today I fixed my dipole with a new questionable strain relief design (click for larger version): Yes indeedy. So far it hasn’t broken. Reception on 80m [...]

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RD Weekend 2009

August 16, 2009 – 22:28

A few hours ago I finished the Remembrance Day Contest for this year, working in the VHF phone section. Not that I knew that I would be until yesterday. It started with a beautiful Saturday. The weather in Hobart was nicer than it has been for months and refusing to stay inside, I went outside [...]

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