Last weekend, during the trip to Kochi, I assembled my HPSDR Penny and Mercury and put a temporary antenna in the terrace. The first thing I did was upgrading the Mercury FPGA code.The OZY board I have is self built and I never bothered to update the VID and PID in EEPROM. This caused some [...]
Feb 2009 issue of QST has this article called “Keeping Current with Antenna Performance” by Eric P. Nichols, KL7A. The article discusses he importance of measuring the RF current at the feedpoint and why SWR measurement is misleading sometimes. This is a great article. A related article on the web is also quite good. QST [...]
I spent the last one week with no access to computer. The only consumables I had were Jan-Mar 2009 issues of QST and some old newspapers. It turned out to be a great time, though I had many other issues to worry about, which was the reason why I was in the place. The QST [...]
Last friday, I went to the market and found this nice shop called Melody Electronics which is right outside all the chaotic SP road. The shop keeper is nice and carries all kids of SMD parts and other stuff. I bought replacements for my damaged tip and afew jumpers.
The first thing I did was to [...]
I blogged the other day about my meeting with Chief VU2AK. Raj called me this morning to say that Chief is no more. He passed away this morning after a massive heart attack. I am really fortunate to have met him this sunday. He looked very healthy and energetic, but God had his way ultimately.
Today I went to the QTH of Raj, VU2ZAP. We were meeting after a long time. Raj showed me his latest acquisition, a HP RF test set, which is a scope, spectrum analyzer, signal generator, VNA all in one box. Very cool stuff. Raj’s shack, as always, is one of the best ham shacks I [...]
I was shocked to hear the news of Mike KL7R’s death in a car accident in Hawai on 24th Jan. Mike and Bill M0HBR brought us the great podcast soldersmoke. I had regular email QSOs with Mike and Bill and the last email exchange I had with him was on [...]
The VU7RG DXpedition is on at Lakshadweep Islands and I had a nice QSO with the OP: Les VU3NZC last evening. VU7RG is strong and loud here in Bangalore.
Had a nice QSO on 2m and later on telephone with Jim Curtis, N6JC who is on a short visit to Bangalore. Jim is a friend of Bill Carver, W7AAZ. I am hoping tomeet Jim during his next visit to Bangalore.