Technical Features VECTOR SWR/POWER METER METROPWR FX773Coverage 1.8/55 MHz 160/6mtHF/55MHz Measure Power AVG, PeP, dBm, R, Z, |X| , SWR, FrequencyWide Autoranging Power range 0.5W/5kW full-scale 10kWHF/50MHz Optional Couplers 0.5W /3kW (FX3) – 0.5W/5kW (FX5)Accuracy SWR error 5%Directivity Coupler 30dBAccuracy Power Better 5%Operating voltage 9/13.8VDimensions 185x110x105 mmWeight 200grFunctional characteristicsDisplay TFT 5″ (FX773) 16 K color…
The University of Louisiana (UL) at Lafayette student-built CAPE-3 satellite was launched on January 17. A 1-U CubeSat, CAPE-3 includes a “digipeater and experimental UHF adaptive radio.” An AX-25 telemetry downlink has been coordinated on 145.825 MHz and a 1k2 frequency-shift keying (FSK) downlink has been coordinated on 435.325 MHz, “which may burst to 100 kHz bandwidth,”…
“Here we take a look at the Skyscan Desktop antenna with a rated frequency range of between 25 Mhz up to 2 Ghz. We test the antenna indoor and outdoors.” Read the full article at https://qrznow.com/wideband-desktop-discone-antenna-25-mhz-2000-mhz-coverage/. STRAY SIGNALS does not claim ownership of the article. The original author is responsible for the content of this…
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) and its partners are troubleshooting what is keeping the NA1SS amateur station off the air. ARISS became aware of the problem after an attempted contact with a school in Wyoming, between ON4ISS on Earth and astronaut Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG at NA1SS, had to abort when no downlink…
The article “Ham Radio Forms a Planet-Sized Space Weather Sensor Network,” appeared on February 9 in Eos, Earth Space Science News — an American Geophysical Union (AGU) publication. It sprang from a project by the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI), founded by Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, of the University of Scranton, one of the paper’s authors. The others are David…
New ICOM IC-705 Features! New Firmware! Read the full article at https://qrznow.com/new-icom-ic-705-features-new-firmware/. STRAY SIGNALS does not claim ownership of the article. The original author is responsible for the content of this post Tweet
Ham Radio vs GMRS – Ham Radio compared to GMRS frequencies and modes – which ones is better? Today let’s talk about both of them, how they compare, and the features of each. Read the full article at https://qrznow.com/ham-radio-vs-gmrs/. STRAY SIGNALS does not claim ownership of the article. The original author is responsible for the…
Proclaimed in 2011 by the Member States of UNESCO, and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 as an International Day, February 13 became World Radio Day (WRD). Radio is a powerful medium for celebrating humanity in all its diversity and constitutes a platform for democratic discourse. At the global level, radio remains…
Where Can I Put My HF Antenna? Read the full article at https://qrznow.com/where-can-i-put-my-hf-antenna/. STRAY SIGNALS does not claim ownership of the article. The original author is responsible for the content of this post Tweet
In recent news, Yaesu announced they have discontinued production of the FTdx3000 and FTdx5000 HF amateur transceivers. In our livestream excerpt we talk a bit on why parts for the manufacture of these radios are suddenly in short supply.