Yesterday we were at the top of the Gerecse mountain. The weather was pretty windy on the geodesic tower where we set up our QTH, and unfortunately our CQs were seldom successful, looked like not too many people sat in front of their radios around that hour when we were there. We only made about […]

This is my latest purchase on ebay, a very nice portable microphone preamp/mixer. I’ve just brought it home an hour ago. I’ll use it mainly for my camera, but I’m also planning to record acoustic guitar and other instruments with it.

You can find the plans and specs for this antenna here. No balun needed, 50 ohms at once, works perfectly fine. I’m using it on a 4m long (telescopic) landing net pole. More pics are here.

On last Sunday, we went to the KM-005 SOTA summit with Mozsó (HA2PIC), Gabesz (HA2SZG), Noybi (HA1TN), AI3iT and their girlfriends to have a picnic, test our new portable antennas and have some QSOs. The weather was absolutely perfect and we had a great time. Noybi and I were the HF squad, Mozsó worked the […]