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I was just about to scream this out on the radio until I realised that I'd just spent an hour idly surfing the net just reading "stuff" - most of it amateur radio. So having done that I could hardly accuse anyone else of not using the radio...

Well, about time I wrote an article, so here it is! An ESR meter is great for testing high (>1uF) value capacitors in circuit. Testing with a standard DVM is unreliable and you often end up de-soldering the cap just to find it was OK after all. This...

Everyone must have heard me groaning on about this for the last few months! The club was unfortunate enough to buy this amp for a large sum when it first came out, and judging by the electronics/mechanical construction it looks like it was probably the...

Yaesu G600RC The Yaesu G600RC Rotator, and Controller before cleaning. The Rotator, and Controller, had been purchased second hand at a superbly low price, and arrived very well packed, in good working order, and fairly good cosmetic condition. We decided...

I bought a Kenpro rotator at the Reading rally and found that on testing everything worked, except the dial didn't go round! Grumble moan, loads of googling - found an article by G8MNY about the same problem - the small spur gear on the motor shaft...

I had a dance last night - to the music issuing forth from my home-made valve superhet receiver! I have made some valve radios in the past - basically amplified crystal sets but this is the first "proper radio" I have constructed. It doesn't have an RF...

As some of you may know, I recently acquired an HF linear and needless to say I've been putting it through its paces recently! I have a doublet antenna and use an MFJ-974H balanced tuner. The problem came when the other morning I tried to tune up on 80m...