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Long time, no updates! That's not to say I haven't been busy though. My latest undertaking with Arduino has been to interface with an RFID...

SBS ('Six Billion Stories'), the Australian television station is now broadcasting two of their channels from Optus D1, the same satellite that ...

I attended the NZART branch 5 meeting in ChCh while there last week and was intrigued to see the device pictured below. Basically a laser ...

My new Yaesu VX-8 handheld has arrived and it's fantastic! I will make another posting soon with some photos and specs etc. In the meantime I ne...

I was lucky enough to go up to the Grampians repeaters site with Dave ZL2BCA this evening while he installed some cavity filters on the National...

[VX8R.png]It's been quite some time since I posted an entry on my blog so I decided to bring you all up to date with a few things tonight :) ...

[Duemilanove.png][ProMini.png] While at the Kiwicon conference last November I was introduced to the Arduino digital-elec...

[TentLight.png] Not really amateur-radio related, but I used the electronic skills I've been learning to build it! This is a 12V DC l...

[FoxDelta.png][RC5.png] This is the "Fox Delta"TNC that I recently bought from Brian, ZL3BCO. It can be used to beacon APRS packets, but I...

Now that I have all these radios and other 12V items running in my workshop it's time to upgrade the bench supply! Until now I've had two separa...

I have been studying flat-out trying to learn all the lingo and procedures for becoming a "Flight Radio Telephone Operator". This will allow...

Brian - ZL3BCO - was kind enough to lend me a TNC to have a play with. I've connected it to my Mac using a USB-RS232 adapter and can control it ...

Next week I'll be at the U-Learn conference in Christchurch, so I've bought myself a Yaesu FT-60 dual-band handheld to use while I'm down there....

Attached to this post is a downloadable 25 second (5MB) video clip taken from TV3's 'Sports Tonight' program. It's a shot out the front windscre...

Well, I've decided to create a blog site that I'll use to post anything pertaining to my amateur radio hobby. I got my license around a mont...

Our local branch of NZART (Branch 26, Nelson) has their own blog site and one of the members asked me to include a link to it, so here it is... ...

I've installed a new "Diamond" X-300 dual-band antenna on the roof of my house and am now using that with my dial-band Yaesu (FT-7800) rig to op...

A couple of weeks ago I built a circuit board for converting the standard PC comm-port signals (called RS-232) into the signals needed to interf...

Last weekend the radio club ran the comms for the Rally of Nelson. I was involved at HQ both days assisting with the incoming position reports f...

We had a session on echolink at the last club meeeting (September 16th at Nayland College). I got to talk a bit about how echolink works and how...