SOAR: Satellite Optimized Amateur Radio

Satellite Optimized Amateur Radio

SOAR: Satellite Optimized Amateur Radio. A radio that’s optimized for operating FM satellites. In this video, I talk about the challenges I’ve had with operating FM satellites, and the product I’m designing and building to address those problems.

You can learn more about SOAR at:

https://electronics.halibut.com/SOAR/

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Antenna

Lesson 6.1 Antenna Basics

December 19, 2014 No comments

Antenna Basics “General Class Ham Radio instructional video, introduces Section 6.1 in the ARRL General Class License Manual. The section is ext... Read more

New ! SteppIR SARK-110 Antenna Analyzer

December 28, 2014 No comments

The SARK-110 is a completely new design concept for an Antenna Analyzer. This is a truly pocket size device, so you can take it anywhere. It of... Read more

Building a 40 Meter Rotatable Dipole

October 15, 2018 No comments

40 Meter Dipole “I enjoyed putting these pieces together from MFJ Hy Gain, MFJ Cushcraft, Texas Towers, M2 and our local hardware store t... Read more

DXplorer system providing facilities for on-air antenna system testing and comparison

November 17, 2016 No comments

DXplorer™ is a unique web-based system providing facilities for on-air antenna system testing and comparison as well as real-time HF propagation analy... Read more

6 Meter Beam Antenna

January 19, 2015 No comments

6 Meter Beam Antenna 1.5 KW Power Handling Capacity Transmits and receives in an uni-directional (one direction) pattern Horizontal and Vertical Polar... Read more

Review

Chameleon MPAS vs Wolf River Silver Bullet – Ham Radio Q&A

September 26, 2019 No comments

“I spent the weekend camping and testing a couple of antennas: the Chameleon MPAS 2 vertical and the Wolf River Coils Silver Bullet 1000. Both a... Read more

AR DV1 Communications Receiver Review

August 13, 2015 No comments

AR-DV1 Communications Receiver Review by Peter Waters G3OJV and Justin Johnson G0KSC. The review was carried out at Waters and Stanton, Europe’s... Read more

Freedom Cannon The Most Insane Ham Radio Antenna Launcher Ever | K6UDA Radio

August 04, 2019 No comments

ARRL 2022 Handbook – Battery Selection for Portable Operation

November 17, 2021 No comments

In this video, we take a look at the new 2022 Handbook from the ARRL. Specifically, we look at a new chapter on selecting a battery for portable opera... Read more

Tools for Every Ham [ ARRL PODCAST ]

September 14, 2018 No comments

The Doctor discusses basic tools that every amateur should have in his or her station. Read more

Equipment

EL/AZ 3D Printed Antenna Rotator – Testing !

July 06, 2021 No comments

“One of the Youtube viewers made a comment a few weeks ago asking about my rotator project. Their comment inspired me to finish it. This project... Read more

DXMini Pi-Star Hotspot for Amateur Radio

December 18, 2018 No comments

DXMINI is your gateway to digital HAM radio… Our devices enable your digital radio to communicate over the internet sending your communications... Read more

GroundBreaker – Isolate your audio to remove RFI and ground loop problems!

June 27, 2018 No comments

The bhi GroundBreaker audio unit isolates the grounds on your bhi DSP noise cancelling product or other ancillary equipment from those of the radio sy... Read more

New DV4Home V2 digital IP transceiver for D-Star, DMR, C4FM, NXDN

October 29, 2017 No comments

DV4home V2 The DV4home V2 is another member of the successful family of DV4 products. As usual it supports all digital modes, while simplifyi... Read more

Yaesu M-70 | Desktop Microphone

February 19, 2021 No comments

The Yaesu M-70 is a new desk top microphone from Yaesu, it is ideal for the new FT-DX10 model but will function with other Yaesu Models. More info so... Read more