Update on the 8816 Crosspoint Switch Project
Finally got my SN74LV8153 chips. Did some coding in the background, but without this chip, it wasn’t value added to mess with it. Mouser is 20 or 30 miles away.…
Yet ANOTHER Project… the MT8816 Crosspoint Switch
This one’s been in the works for a long time. I’ve always wanted to play with some sort of audio routing device. I’ve worked on a number of different airplanes.…
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…