Category: Amateur Radio (Ham Radio)

In the initial part of this series, I had mentioned that IC CXA1619BS with 30 pins is being used in this Do It Yourself FM Radio Kit. Though

My multi-band fan dipole antenna with elements for 40, 20 and 10m had developed ‘HI SWR’ after adding loading coils to 40m elements to work on 80m. It

What happened when I tried to fix the FM board inside the speaker box?

17m band is one of the WARC bands. 4m of wire on either side will be needed for a 17m dipole antenna. 17m band is from 18.068–18.168 MHz.

After struggling a lot with tuning my loaded coil dipole antennas, I decided to buy a NanoVNA, which is an affordable handheld antenna analyzer, widely used by radio

Those of you who have been following my posts would know that I have been trying to come up on 80m for the past few weeks. Initially I

Started working on the FM Radio Kit once again. Now I am soldering the central pin of the 10K volume control potentiometer. Second wire to the potentiometer being

Few days back VU3WEW had mentioned about a planned IOTA DXpedition to Sacrifice Rock which is along the coast of my own district. In fact I had a

Thought of conducting propagation test on six HF bands for which I have provision. For 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands I use a three band fan dipole

Many of you would have heard of moon bounce, popularly known as EME or Earth-Moon-Earth contacts in which radio signals are bounced off the moon to establish two