My EME setup on 2m is 2 x M2 9 el Yagis, Dow Microwave preamp, FT991 and a 1 KW Beko amp. Until a couple of months ago I was able to make many EME contacts. Sometimes I would not hear stations (ZL and CT8) when my preamp was fried Read more…
I needed a multiplier beam for the Southeast for working Caribbean multipliers. At best far away from my main tower. However the best spot was full of trees shedding branches, and a regular tower would be risky. I remembered constructing a 3 el 20m Spiderbeam using a carbon glass fishing Read more…
Flex 6xxx series is advertised as having a powerful transmit audio because of CESSB implementation. This is one of the reasons I bought the radio. A regular speech processing with IF clipping produces some peaks that need to be suppressed. CESSB is a technique that avoids those peaks leading potentially Read more…