This year’s European SOTA Activity Day 2023 took place on Saturday, 16th September 2023. It coincided with the ALL OE SOTA Activity Day 2023 as well as the OE5 SOTA Day 2023. Here are the blog articles containing the recap…
My primary SOTA workhorse is a multi-band (20/30/40) inverted-vee trapped dipole. I’ve done over a hundred activations with it and it has never failed to provide me with numerous EU-continental QSOs on either 40 or 20 metres (usually on both…
The HobbyPCB Hardrock HF-50 Amplifier is the perfect companion for a QRP radio such as the Elecraft KX2 or a Yaesu FT-817ND. It can be directly driven from your QRP radio and generates > 50W of power from 160 m…
I always bring my Garmin Foretrex 601 with me when I go out for a SOTA activation. The benefits of doing so are twofold: To begin with, for more complicated routes, I use Garmin BaseCamp in conjunction with Garmin OpenTopoMap…
There a numerous technical ham radio books out there that deal with every conceivable ham radio related matter ranging from antenna building over electronics to digital signal processing. This article attempts to become – over time and with your help…
There a numerous technical ham radio books out there that deal with every conceivable ham radio related matter ranging from antenna building over electronics to digital signal processing. No matter is too obscure that you would not find a book…
In the ever-escalating arms race between black-hat (and to some degree white-hat commercially oriented) SEO the value of search engine results continues to decline. Consequently the purpose of this blog article is to keep a curated lists of blogs that…
Several times a year the ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) team is setting up SSTV (Slow Scan Television) events where images are transmitted from the ISS down to earth for reception by eager SATCOM enthusiasts. Those events…
While there’s plenty of ham radio software available for Windows you can easily find yourself out of luck if you are a Linux-running radio fiend. On Windows you can easily decode SSTV images with MMSSTV. This article describes how to…
There are many ways to receive SSTV images transmitted by the International Space Station. From a simple hand-held radio with a rubber ducky antenna to sophisticated setups with automatically guided high-gain directional antennas there are many options how to receive…