My wife had asked me not to buy a ham radio before Christmas. It turns out that it was worth the wait. She got me a Yaesu FT-450D. I am having a ton of fun with it.
Getting a transceiver on the air
December 27, 2011
What a Nice Hammy Christmas
December 22, 2011
When in Doubt, Put in a Load Resistor
I am experimenting with various oscillators and having a lot of fun. It’s the first time that I am having a lot of success putting together analog circuits that work. I am also having my brain-farts. I am working on a Vackar VFO. It turns out to be a stable VFO with a nice clean sine wave, but that has nothing to do with my brain-fart.
Use a load resistor
December 17, 2011
A nifty homebrew LC meter
I spent the day putting together a less unattractive LC meter then the one I had on a breadboard. As I said in the last post, the design is from Kerry D Wong. As an exercise, I made an attempt at getting the parts strictly from the local radio shack.
The completed LC meter
December 16, 2011
Before I Build a Tranceiver…
I picked up a copy of the ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications. I bought and fixed a nice Fluke 1935A frequency counter, and I just built an LC meter from mostly parts at radio shack.
What’s an LC meter?
December 11, 2011
Now that I’m a Ham…
One of the things I want to do, now that I have an amateur radio license, is build a transceiver. I’m probably going to settle on the Bitx 20 since I can hold the whole design in my head. I’ve actually built the VFO on a breadboard as a learning exercise.
A new ham has lots of projects