Radio and RF

Projects related to Ham radio and other forms of radio communication.

Kenwood TS-850S HF Transceiver LCD Display Repair Photo

Kenwood TS-850S HF Transceiver LCD Display Repair

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Fault finding and repairing a faulty Kenwood TS-850S HF Transceiver with a dead display backlight, replacing the compact fluorescent lamp with an LED strip

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Quansheng UV-K6 with HF mod with UVK5CEC firmware Photo

Quansheng UV-K6 with HF mod with UVK5CEC firmware

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Installing a HF modification board into a Quansheng UV-K6 HAM radio to add HF receiver with CW, SSB and USB radio modes using UVK5CEC firmware

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Ham Radio Asterisk Allstar Gateway with a Tait 8110 and Raspberry Pi Photo

Ham Radio Asterisk Allstar Gateway with a Tait 8110 and Raspberry Pi

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Setting up the hardware and software for an AllStar Link Gateway using a Tait TM8110 which is a 25W PMR radio with a Raspberry Pi and USB sound card interface

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USB Programming Cable for Tait TM8110 PMR Radios Photo

USB Programming Cable for Tait TM8110 PMR Radios

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Making a USB Programming Cable for Tait TM8000 series PMR Radios to use as Ham Radio repeaters

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HackRF One Shielded Case Installation Photo

HackRF One Shielded Case Installation

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Installing a shielded case for our HackRF One software-defined radio

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HackRF One SDR EMI Shield installation Photo

HackRF One SDR EMI Shield installation

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Adding an EMI shield to our HackRF One SDR

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Cateye Micro Wireless Bike Computer interference Photo

Cateye Micro Wireless Bike Computer interference

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LED lights causing RF interference with Cateye Micro Wireless Bike Computer stopping the speed sensor from working

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Mastervolt Soladin RF Filtering Photo

Mastervolt Soladin RF Filtering

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The Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar mains inverter has an issue where is it causing a lot of RF interference so we added additional RF Filtering and screening to try to reduce the unwanted radio emissions

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Powerpole Fused Distribution Board Photo

Powerpole Fused Distribution Board

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Making a low-voltage power distribution board using Powerpole connectors and automotive blade fuses

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Variable RF Signal Sampler Photo

Variable RF Signal Sampler

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Building a variable RF signal sampler to check the outputs on amateur (Ham) radios transmitters.

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Cental Heating Control via Windows Phone and Raspberry Pi Photo

Cental Heating Control via Windows Phone and Raspberry Pi

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Using a Windows Phone and a Raspberry Pi to control our home's gas-powered central heating system

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Kent Hand Morse Key Restoration Photo

Kent Hand Morse Key Restoration

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I purchased a used and very tatty Kent Hand Morse Key from eBay and restored it to a new condition

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Yaesu FT 817 Cat Control Headaches Photo

Yaesu FT 817 Cat Control Headaches

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Problems with the programming / CAT cable for my Yaesu FT 817 transceiver.

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RF Shielding on a Mains Inverter Photo

RF Shielding on a Mains Inverter

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Our mains solar inverter is causing RF interference on our ham radio transceivers so we put it in a metal case to improve the RF shielding

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XBee Central Heating Control via Raspberry Pi Photo

XBee Central Heating Control via Raspberry Pi

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Using an XBee wireless module and a Raspberry Pi to control a Drayton Lifestyle LP522 central heating programmer.

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