Radio and RF

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

Kenwood TS-850S HF Transceiver LCD Display Repair

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

17 April 2025 5 min read

Quansheng UV-K6 with HF mod with UVK5CEC firmware

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

01 January 2025 14 min read

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

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

08 October 2022 16 min read

USB Programming Cable for Tait TM8110 PMR Radios

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

08 September 2022 5 min read

HackRF One Shielded Case Installation

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

01 August 2015 3 min read

HackRF One SDR EMI Shield installation

Adding an EMI shield to our HackRF One SDR

23 March 2015 2 min read

Cateye Micro Wireless Bike Computer interference

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

09 November 2014 4 min read

Mastervolt Soladin RF Filtering

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

04 September 2014 4 min read