Pixie QRP 7Mhz CW Kit

The other week, talk on the australian ham radio Facebook wall turned to kit radios and the Pixie QRP Kit. A number of options were shown and talked about, after a search and comparison, I chose to purchase this Versions of the kit from This eBay seller. with free postage it was around $8. The…

SotaBeams Dipole Traps

A couple of months ago, the SOTABeams Facebook pageĀ Posted a link to a new item they had just finished making. A simple pair of lightweight dipole trapsĀ for portable use to help with running multiple bands and the band changing efforts. I had built a link dipole last year and this works well, but if the…

RaspberryPi WSPR Beacon – WsprryPi

The inspiration to purchase a RaspberryPi originally came from reading an article about turning it into a simple HF WSPR beacon. The device will output around 10 milliwatts directly from the GPIO4 pin and once connected to antenna will transmit away!. The first step was to build a simple band pass filter, i choose 30m/10Mhz…