I joined my first net, Högalandsringen.

Yesterday I had browsed for interesting nets and associations in my area and rediscovered SM6LR. It’s a ham radio club belonging to Lidköping, a town some 30km north of my QTH. The club house is at JO68pk37, to the south of Lidköping, so it’s a bit closer to me. On a whim I decided to visit them last night. To my delight I found a group of people who were very welcoming and friendly.

I’ve decided to make the website open source. I’ll add a page on how to set up a similar website for yourself, but for now, here’s the GitHub repository. I’m using Hugo to generate the website, and Cloudflare Pages to host it. Cloudflare automatically detects changes to the main branch of the github repository, and rebuilds the website. It’s pretty neat, and 100% free for my use case at the time of writing.

I’ve decided to make the website open source. I’ll add a page on how to set up a similar website for yourself, but for now, here’s the GitHub repository. I’m using Hugo to generate the website, and Cloudflare Pages to host it. Cloudflare automatically detects changes to the main branch of the github repository, and rebuilds the website. It’s pretty neat, and 100% free for my use case at the time of writing.

I sacrificed the cat door in favor of a cable passthrough.

I sacrificed the cat door in favor of a cable passthrough.

This is my “shack” before the modification. It’s not tidy enough to earn that name, therefore the quotes. My loud computer is to the right of my nice silver mic there on the table. The side is open to reduce the need of high fan speed and the accompanying loud noise.

I had a pile of crap behind me in my tiny shack. I decided to make use of the space instead! I made a video too, of course.

Tonight I had my first QSO that wasn’t planned on Facebook! SA6CKL broke in when me and SA6ANW were talking about sound cards for websdr and had a quick chat with us. I’m so happy!

A cluttered desktop is no desktop for the tinkerer. Therefore; Shelves.

I’m loving this! I’m so very happy with my acquisition.  🙂

I recently got introduced to DMR and bought msyelf an AnyTone D878UVII Plus, got it programmed and had my first couple of international QSOs within a day. Wonderful stuff this! Perfect entry way for hams who don’t want to get stuck on the technical side, but actually get past that mic fright.

An old mini TV combined with a Raspberry Pi can make for something completely new and different!

The signal to noise ratio was way to low so I built this circuit around the mic.

I used the only resistors I had so my circuit has 300 ohm ones where the diagram has 10 kohm ones.

I had a pile of crap behind me in my tiny shack. I decided to make use of the space instead! I made a video too, of course.

The signal to noise ratio was way to low so I built this circuit around the mic.

I used the only resistors I had so my circuit has 300 ohm ones where the diagram has 10 kohm ones.

The signal to noise ratio was way to low so I built this circuit around the mic.

I used the only resistors I had so my circuit has 300 ohm ones where the diagram has 10 kohm ones.

A Panadapter is know by many names. The most scientific and correct might be “radio spectrum scope”, but the most common in the ham sphere is “panadapter” or “pan-adaptor” in my short experience. Basically, it’s a wide panoramic view of a radio spectrum. For a ham, it’s normally used in conjunction with a transceiver or a set of transceivers. It’s also common that the computer doing the spectrum visualization is connected to the transceiver via CAT or similar, so that a click in the spectrum view tunes the transceiver to the desired frequency.

I’m loving this! I’m so very happy with my acquisition.  🙂

A Kenwood TS-570D and an awesome and absolutely beautiful Astatic D-104. Now: Antennas…