Sometimes my arm gets tired holding up the Elk antenna, so I started looking for a way to mount it. With the help of another Amateur Radio operator (K3RRR) on YouTube I put together a modified tripod mount for the Elk antenna. I used an old camera tripod like this one, AmazonBasics 60-Inch Lightweight Tripod with Bag and a 3 inch screw …
Programming Your Baofeng for SO-50 with Chirp
Working SO-50 with a Baofeng is a lot of fun. Programming a Baofeng for SO-50 can be tricky, but it is a little easier with Chirp, a PC and cable. Recently I purchased an Elk 2M/440L5 antenna for working satellites. I’ve been able to work SO-50, but probably couldn’t do it without good programming and some help from others. Getting …
Amateur Radio Satellite Elk Antenna Assembly and Working SO-50
Amateur Radio satellite communications looks like loads of fun to me. I first saw a demonstration in 2017 at the Dayton Hamvention. I saw the same Ham, Paul (N8HM), giving another demo for AMSAT at the 2018 Hamvention. So, I recently purchased an Elk2M/440L5 handheld SAT antenna to try out with my Baofeng. (Coming up next, more on JS8 and …
Handy Mini60 SARK100 Antenna Analyzer Overview
I purchased a Mini60 antenna analyzer a few months back. You can buy one of these for around $109 on E-bay. Mine is a bluetooth model. They come with and without bluetooth and the Mini60 (or SARK100 clone) without BT is less expensive. In Yellowstone I used it to check my wire antennas and also to tune my Tarheel 200A …
N1MM Logger Recording and Saving TX Messages on the Fly
N1MM Logger+ recording is really very simple. It’s just takes a couple of keystrokes on the keyboard to record and save TX audio, like a CQ message. Last weekend I participated in the South Dakota QSO Party (video here) and used the CQ message quite often. The solution I’ve used over the years is called “recording on the fly”. See the …