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Recently Chris G3TUU passed away leaving a large collection of components and equipment that his family wishes to dispose of.   The collection consists of a TS2000, an FT902DM with FC902 ATU (will split), and IC255E and an HQ170 valve receiver. These were working but not used since Chris was incapacitated.   There are also substantial quantities of test equipment, power supplies and components. ... read

one of the options to explore activity on any band would be to get one of the RTLSDR blog USB SDR dongles, you can connect to your external antenna, just need a laptop the dongle(about £40) and some free software you can then look at activity on any frequency (with correct antenna) 500khz to about 1.6Ghz any mode before you spend ... read

I don't know if anybody remembers or has heard of the the Icom ICB-1050. I have a few of those on 10 meters FM those sets were favorable for converting to 10 meters "the FM portion of the 10 meter band" with repeater shift, apparently once converted can then be converted to do 6 meters although FM only but with ... read

I would like to get into 6 Meters but there are a number of factors holding me back which is the lack of radio's out there that do 6 meters.  Typically you got to spend large amounts of cash to get onto 6 meters with the following options of buying an old junky 50 MHz transceiver that may have faults or ... read

Hi, what part of the country will you be in? as this forum cover the whole of the UK and a few members beyound 73 Peter M0PWX (not pete M0PSX who runs the site) read

This Sunday I would like to work simplex on 70CM, I'll be calling out CQ on 433.500 MHz FM then moving to 433.400 MHz FM. Anybody is welcome to join in. I will start after 11am and calling out through the day from a hill top.  We are very privileged to have all these bands and it seems a shame not ... read

To listen to GB3DA, you'd need to tune to 145.725MHz (no CTCSS). If you can't hear anything, you may be out of range, not have a good enough antenna or have the squelch setting up too high read

Hi, I am new to the scene and tried as hard as I could tonight to listen in, no matter what I seemed to programme (even with CHIRP) I could not hear anything from the Danbury repeater. What am I doing wrong? Any help would greatly be appreciated.  read

hi, On my account dashboard, i've got a weird message saying "Hey Mark_UK, you've created 116 NextGEN galleries! Awesome!" Anyone know whatever that means? I'm concerned there's been muppetry afoot, as in someone has used my account to post a bunch of nonsense.   read

its under the legacy section https://yaesu.com/product-detail.aspx?Model=FT-450D&CatName=Legacy https://yaesu.com/Files/BB2B47AE-1018-01AF-FAE48FDCB1919193/PCC-450D_V102.zip?ts=8/2/2025%2010:37:54%20AM you will need the usb driver as well https://yaesu.com/Files/BB2B47AE-1018-01AF-FAE48FDCB1919193/USB_Driver_Installation_Manual_ENG_2205-E.pdf?ts=8/2/2025%2010:37:54%20AM read