More 705 accessory updates
In addition to the dewalt battery adaptor, I have also started using a 12 lithium jump start pack. In both cases, I had to kludge power cables…. This is a…
Icom’s 13 pin DIN… another minor thing.
Once upon a time, I bought some 13 pin DINs to wire my own cables for the Icom 706 (and also later radios). 13 pin solder cups, with my clumsy…
Minor Modifications: Heil Icom Adaptor Cable
I’ve had a Heil Proset Plus IC for quite some time – it’s comfortable, and the phase reversal switch is great for pulling weak signals out of the noise. I’ve…
Updates… RUMLog, WSJT, WFView… MacOS
It’s been a while since I’ve run RUMLOG…. but I’ve been using WFView and WSJT-X together with no issues. I wasn’t keen on the logging abilities of WSJT, so I’ve…
A new power supply for the Sprague 600A Interference Locator
Many years ago, I was blessed to get a Sprague 600A Interference Locator from the estate of my Elmer, WB9KHR. As an EMI Engineer, this was just COOL. It was…
Revisiting the cable modem spectrum analyzer
I actually hit the front page of hackaday writing about this one, and I’m still being honest that this was NOT my discovery, I just made a few observations about…
A different radio challenge…
I came across a GR1225 Motorola repeater. We had a use for it, but no one knew what it was set up for. I no longer own a windows XP…
More MacOS Radio – WinLink
Yet another one I’m not going to recreate the documentation required to get it working… but here’s a couple sites with working solutions: Both of these rely on “Crossover” to…
Another “Old” Post Revisited
Some time ago, I wrote about the Drill Battery power adaptors for 12V stuff. Well, I had forgotten about that, and it was just another item in my toolbox. More…
Icom 705 Accessorization
Formerly “Another ‘I’m Cheap’ Icom 705 thing”… Cheap…err….frugal accessories – Tabletop Tripod The most used tabletop mount for the icom 705 is the manfrotto (Amazon) tabletop model. This has been…