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Foxhunting with the Handi-Finder!
Thanks to Eliot, W1MJ, I had the opportunity for another hunt this weekend. A great excuse to get outside and put my Handi-finder to the test! This time the fox was in a conservation area adjacent to the typical hunting grounds for the W1MJ fox; easy to find the parking lot and lots of land…
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Updating Firmware on uSDX+
I recently acquired a used –and seemingly a little faulty– uSDX+. These are the little SDR transceivers all over eBay based on the tr(uSDX) devleopment and produced by a plethora of vendors of varying quality. I believe mine is what is called the ‘white buttons’ model — in reference to the different variations that turn…
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Building the “Handi-Finder”!
A few months back I got a chance to head out on another fox hunt in the same public conservation land. Again, using the Yagi with 4Mhz offset attenuator, I was able to quickly locate the general area of each fox, but up close to such strong signals (5W Baofeng transmitters), I was again completely…
