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Second hand items for sale
The following items are offered for sale on behalf of an amateur that has left the hobby through...
Get your Foundation licence
The Foundation Licence syllabus is thorough covering the essential basics of electronics, radio...
High SWR blew up your radio - repair
High SWR blew up your radio. Simple testing anyone can do to repair it.
A stand-alone WSPR beacon kit
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SWL - Numbers station
While tuning around the shortwave bands early this morning, I stumbled upon the tail end of this...
Spatial Interference Filtering Techniques
Spatial Interference Filtering, or beamforming, has traditionally been accomplished with analog...
ILLW Cards on the way
VK3WI QSL Cards for the event are now on the way (via the VK3 Bureau) to all who made it “in the...
The hidden costs of amateur repeaters
From time to time we hear about the funding difficulties experienced by clubs who run a repeater...
Mt Wombat - new repeater
As part of the rebuilding of the site on Mt Wombat, ARV volunteers recently installed a new...
Homebrew magnetic loop
Those particularly short on room can make their own antenna that covers the 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m and...
A Sputnik transmitter recreated
A transmitter of the type that was on board Sputnik 1 when it became the world’s first artificial...
Dual-Band Slim Jim for Satellites
The old faithful Slim Jim antenna has been put to the test on orbiting amateur radio satellites...