I’ve been hearing about DMR more and more and I was curious to see how it all works. Not wanting to spend too much to check it out, I decided to start with a Baofeng UV-1801 (*more on this later) and an ebay hotspot kit, running Pi-star. The hotspot kit was easy to assemble requiring …
Having recently passed my General license exam, I was eager to try to get on HF. This began the hunt for an antenna that didn’t require permanent installation as I live in a rental. Proper dipoles seemed too difficult to string up in temporary installs. I have had some success with portable verticals, but I …
I recently wrote about making DIY Programming cable for the FT-90. Once I had it programmed I was able to do some testing. One thing I noticed is that this radio has great sensitivity – I was quickly picking up clear signals from repeaters I used to struggle make out over static. One other thing …
I recently purchased an Yaesu FT-90 to play around with. It came with a mic with the typical cracking, falling apart cable. Luckily replacement cables are available readily on auction sites and Amazon- so this was a quick swap to make it all work and look like new. Next question was programming.
