Review
Virtual Reality For Ham Radio With Oculus Quest 2
Virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Quest 2 has the capability of remoting into your ham shack computer for remote control of any application on... Read more
MOSFET – The Most significant invention of the 20th Century
What makes a truly world-changing invention?. Of all the inventions of the 20th century just one could be said to have changed the world in such a way... Read more
The only five things you need (for portable operation)
Stop buying equipment, you only need these five things to have a successful ham radio portable operation. Read more
How Good is the IC-7300 Internal Tuner?
Lee, KA5NHU, watched Ask Dave Episode #391 and has a question. Could you use the internal tuner inside the IC-7300 or should you use an external tuner... Read more
Uses of Pre-Amp, Attenuation, Notch, Noise Blanker, Noise Reduction, and IP+ ?
Robert, W4RKM, has watched many videos on the funtions and capabilities of a rig, but he wants to know the differences and applications for the variou... Read more
Antenna
Self-contained Antenna Tracker
Antenna Tracker A self contained antenna rotator and radio controller. Natively controls Icom and Yaesu rotators and can interface with PSTRotator. No... Read more
VHQ HEX BEAM ANTENNA
HEX BEAM ANTENNA VHQ Hex Beam Complete with 6 Bands 6,10,12,15,17,20, Ice Cords. 2″ mast Hub, comes with everything needed including Ferrite cho... Read more
Cheap Tilt-Over Vertical Antenna
“I finished the project! Fantastic way of tilting over my vertical antennas. I will review this again in a few weeks to see what I learned... Read more
Installed a HUGE 90m (300 feet) Receive Loop
Amazing 90m loop with 4:1 balun. How does it compare to the smaller Loop On Ground? Read more
Measuring Balun Ratios
I have been asked how to measure the ratios of a Balun or an Unun. So if you’re someone who has that same question this is a video for you. Read more
Software
DXLog 2.5.29 is now available
DXLog was ignoring some cluster spots from DXSpider nodes. DXLog was also ignoring some PSK spots. These have been fixed. Problems with the spot quali... Read more
LORA APRS – iGate & Tracker Configuration & Test
Here we take a look at the Lora APRS project using the TTGO Lora Boards LORA Features:Working voltage: 1.8~3.7v Acceptable current: 10~14mA Transmit c... Read more
New Icom Amateur Radio USB Driver and Control Software Updates
Over the Christmas and New Year Holiday, Icom released updates that will provide improvements to the IC-705/ID-52E USB driver and RS-BA1 Version 2 and... Read more
SDRangel – TX & RX Software Defined Radio
An overview of some of the features in SDRangel, an open-source TX & RX SDR (Software Defined Radio) application. Read more
PDW – An SDR Decoder For ACARS & POCSAG Pagers
PDW – An SDR Decoder For ACARS & POCSAG Pagers Read more
Digital Modes
The Ultimate Portable Ham Radio Computer
Hello Operators. In this episode of the OH8STN ham radio, we are discussing replacing the raspberry pi field computer build, with the Microsoft Surfac... Read more
Get Started with FT8 – An Introduction for Beginners
FT8 is a mode in the WSJT-X software developed by Dr Joe Taylor K1JT. In this video I show how to get started and make contacts with FT8, introduction... Read more
WSJT-X Version 2.5.1 has been Released
The WSJT-X development team has announced the general availability release of WSJT-X version 2.5.1. This release mainly contains i... Read more
WSJT-X Errors? Try This Simple Fix
Does WSJT-X display errors when you transmit with your radio? Try this simple fix which has helped me get rid of those frustrating errors. Read more
WSJT-X version 2.5.1 released
WSJT-X version 2.5.1 releasedThe development team have announced the General Availability (GA) release of WSJT-X version 2.5.1. This release mainly co... Read more
