THE ULTIMATE 3 WSPR PART 2 (TESTING)

The completed U3 with room for more addons if needed

Another view from the rear with antenna, power (5 volts) and gps sockets

The GPS new and old (the old V,KEL in the box with 3.3v regulator board)  SKM61 has just been delivered and is pictured to the right of the box

I would advise to use quick drying transformer varnish

THE ULTIMATE 3 WSPR PART1 (BUILDING)

 Well the Hans Summers U3 Kit arrived and as you can see i had my work cut out....

 

As you can see the PCB's are really well made and a pleasure to solder

 I mocked up a couple of test low pass filters to test the U3 with temp hot melt

 Once the U3 was built i powered up and it worked first time

 

Filters in order from left to right 160, 80,40,30,20 and 10 meters with a fresh coat of transformer varnish which seals them from the elements and holds them in place... no nasty hotglue

 The GPS i purchased from ebay  and the lovely new case came so we are on the home straight !

WELCOME TO THE CLAN...M6YBV

Just a quick update to let you all know my lovely wife Beverley has passed her foundation and now has the callsign M6YBV.

     she is also on eQSL.cc

PURCHASED A ICOM IC-9100 AND MADE MY DV-MEGA

The DV-Mega landed in the post and i made it in about 30mins, After a little bit setting up we had it running on my dstar handset, more info speak to Karl from www.dvmega.co.uk 

    Works well on the IC-9100

Extra Modifications to the filter system for GB3TS

Extra Modifications to the filter system for GB3TS

We got a lot of work done on site last week.
Cabinet installed by Ian G7MFN with all the trimmings ( PDU power distribution unit and shelf) and after a spruce up we done a few tests which revealed that the cavity filters even though they were perfectly tuned were showing a high SWR.
The antenna has a perfect SWR of 1:0 (one to none as they say but as noted i should realy say 1:1 ) so we will be going back up next week after the new N connectors arrive and I have soldered them into the the RX filters. This time we will try to notch at the RX side so there won't be a swr problem.

 

GB3TS IS UP AND RUNNING

We have commissioned our new   Yaesu Fusion repeater GB3TS

www.wtrg.co.uk

    Barry G0SCI Treasurer

    Ian G7MFN NOV Holder

 Bill M0XGR Site Manager

ITS BEEN A LONG TIME....

Hi all well yes it has been a long time indeed but i have been very busy so here is a few bolds to put you all up to speed in the sci world


WEARS radio club now own a FTDX-1200

     Heres a few of the lads at club