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Jul 21, 2024
Category: General
Posted by: lex

On hackaday there is a post with the question : Are Hackers the future of amateur radio?

I shared my thoughts on this.  continue reading . . . 

Jun 23, 2024
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Hans Summers releases a new product: the QMX+ multi-band multi-mode transceiver.  I didn't hesitated for a moment and ordered one.

The construction is documented in this page.  

Dec 28, 2023
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Adding some safety to my UpCon6W from Amsat-DL. A WG2020X Isolator from RF-TyT to protect me from screwing things up. 

Read more . . . 

Jul 24, 2023
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Today I received my QRP-Labs QMX. So I started building it and tried to document the build.


Continue reading . . . .

Apr 11, 2023
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Spring cleaning in my shack. While stocks last, I'm giving away sets of 2 old stock PCB's for my QRP-Labs broadcast band filter for postage cost only. Checkout: https://www.ph2lb.nl/blog/index.php?page=bc-filter and if you like it, fill in the webshop order form http://ph2lb.nl/webshop/order.php to get yours. 

Mar 28, 2023
Category: General
Posted by: lex

 I have added new K2 mods and articles to this website . . . . (continue reading)

Jan 18, 2023
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I'm now on HamShack Hotline 420-000-0225 (or the short number 84225)

Continue reading . . .  

Dec 25, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

When you want to measure output power and don't have a power or dBm meter, but do have a oscilloscope and a 50 ohm load, you good to go.

Check out this page on which I describe how to do it. 

Continue reading . . . . 

Dec 13, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I updated the 40dB RF Sampler page because although I was very happy with the result, I found out that I forgot a small thing.

To be exact, a small piece of wire which flattens the curve on higher frequencies. 

Continue reading.....

Dec 3, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

In the winter of 2022 I bought the original TinySA at Eleshop and when they published that the would sell the TinySA Ultra, I ordered it right away.

Continue reading . . . . . 

Oct 6, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

The last weeks I have worked on a few small mini projects :

Jul 31, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

The used Elecraft K2 I got my hands on needed some work on the 20m band and for the alignment of the 20m BPF I could follow the Elecraft manual. But owning a NanoVNA . . . . . well you know where this is going ;-)

 Continue reading   

Jul 30, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I got my hands on a used Elecraft K2 which needed some work. 

And as always I started working on it and added a usb mod

Jul 12, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

My OZ2CPU digitale RF mW-dBm-mV meter has a  input range from 1nW to 1W which is good enough for QRPp rigs and my TinySA has a imput limit of +10dBm / 10mW.  When you want to measure on equipment which gives more output power, you need a serious set of attenuators, or you could build yourself a 40dB RF sampler.

continue reading . . .  

Jul 5, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Help spread the word and show your support with these free (vinyl) stickers.

Jul 4, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

On 30 june 2022 I got a mailing from RaspberryPI  store that the Raspberry PI foundation has released a new PI Pico which also includes a wireless module for Wifi and Bluetooth.

So I ordered 4 of them to get myself familiar with this new microcontroller and to do some experiments with it. And 1 day later postman dropped of a package. 

Continue reading . . . .

Jun 28, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Through this Soldersmoke blog post, I came across this blog post from Owen Duffy ex VK1OD now VK2OMD.

He asked him self  : Are radio hams 'makers' ?

IMHO a valid question on which I given my point of view.  Continue reading . . . . 

Jun 17, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Early June 2022 I got a e-mail from OM Cor PA4Q that he has visited my website again and he wrote me that he started to make the Anderson PowerPoles his standard connector for all the hamradio devices running on a 12-15V DC. He upgraded his FT817 like I did but he also wanted to upgrade other equipment and for that he needed good chassis parts. In his option (and I agree) these are hard to find or way to expensive. 

Continue reading . . . 

May 4, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Fellow ham and hamradio homebrewer Gilles F1BFU  bought 2 adapter kits of my for his experiments. After a few months he ordered 2 additional kits for a friend and told me that he was working on a uSDX version designed by Barb WB2CBA design. He asked me if I could design a adapter that could fit the WB2CBA LPF for measurements and when I told hem I could take a look at it if I had a LPF PCB he send me a bare PCB.

Continue reading . . . . 

May 3, 2022
Category: General
Posted by: lex

This website doesn't have ads and I try to keep it that way. But when you like to content on this website, you can support me by :

Buying part, products and left-overs which I sell through my For Sale page.

Buy Me a Coffee at ko-fi.com at Ko-fi.com

BuyMeACoffee at BuyMeACoffee.com.

Dec 12, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Because I love playing chess (although just being a average player), I added a section about chess to this website.

Continue reading. . . . 

Nov 27, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

As a hamradio homebrewer I often use my NanoVNA to measure filters, antennas and crystals. But a NanoVNA is much more than that, you can also measure components with it. 

Continue reading . . . 

Now also availible as complete or build kit. Check out this ForSale page

Aug 2, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

What's on my hamradio bookshelf? After cleaning the shack I thought about adding a article to this blog on which book i have and use in the shack.

Continue reading. . . . 

Jul 12, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

After a few weeks I decided to setup the dish temporary in my backyard and made some cables to wire every thing up.. The original setup had a off focus placed 4.5 turn helix which was ok, but didn't give the expected  punch and  the signals where a little bit weak in SSB on the QO-100. Other operators told me that the signal was readable but not that strong.  So that was one thing to improve and the idea a of a new Helix feed was born.  

Continue reading. 

May 24, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

A few months ago I ordered a  ATU100 kit from China (without a case), and on a rainy weekend I decided to build it together.  This ATU is equipped with a 1.3" OLEDd display and one thing I hate about these displays is that you almost can't install them without damaging the glass. Thinking about it, I decided that I need a 3D printable frame which puts all the mechanic stress on the PCB instead on the glass  . . .  Continue reading . . . 

May 11, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Today I installed one the Electron Volt Limited AGC's in my QCX-mini and it works like a charm.

Continue reading . . .  

May 10, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Today I installed one the Electron Volt Limited AGC's in my QCX+ and it works like a charm.

Continue reading . ..  

May 6, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Recently my son-in-law got a tip that the Creality company had a nice set offer for the LD-002R resin printer. That set would include the LD-002R resin printer and the UW-01 washing and curing unit for a very reasonable price. 

continue reading . . . 

Apr 23, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Because I recently got a addition FT817ND I tried to order a new speaker at my local modelrailroad shop but they had problems delivering it (it was out of stock).

Continue reading . . . 

Apr 15, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Years ago my childeren build a few crystal radio kit from Chris Dorna PE1DZX which he sold through his website. When Chhris stopped making these kits, he let that website expire to be lost for ever. Recently I was contacted by a ham who wanted to build these radio's and still had the kit building instructions in PDF. I asked Chris if he was ok with it that I shared these PDF's and hosted them on my website. Chris was ok with that so from now on the kit building instructions can be downloaded here.  
Big credits to Chris. 

Apr 11, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

My previous 1206 Attenuator design was a horror story because there where 2 big flaws in it. 
Fixed those, ordered a "small" batch, which came in last Saturday. Build two for testing.
Now they seem to work up to 1.2GHz (good enough for the hobby).  
Continue reading. . . . 

Mar 30, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

For those who are in need of a FRG-7 main dial knob and have a 3D printer, today I took the knob of my Frog and started drawing.

read more . . . 

Mar 23, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

The PCB's have arrived and I assembled one for one of my FRG's   Read more . . .  

Mar 12, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I don't have a webshop and don't run a company. But when your interested in products I made, or you are looking for special parts which I use in my experiments, parts from restoration projects etc, fill in this new email form I added to my website.  

Feb 25, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I finished the design of the Crystal Measuring Adapter (CMA) for NanoVNA  and will be making a limited amout of kit available from the left over parts.

KIt contains : PCB with the 4 SMD load resistors pre-soldered and 2 SMD 0 ohm resistors for the attenuator sections (0dB), 2 SMA female SMA edge connectors,  2 FT37-43 toroid, 1.2m 0.4mm lacker wire, HC49 crystal socket for crystal under test,  16 pin header strip,  3 jumpters, 3D printed plate with 6 pins, 2 3D printed T37 holders. 

Check out : kit for-sale page

 

Feb 13, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Sssst don't tel any one, but I'm working on a new NanoVNA adapter, check it out on this page.

Jan 25, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Got some new toys to play with. The all new Raspberry PI PICO. 

Continue reading. 

Jan 18, 2021
Category: General
Posted by: lex

When I got my hands on a used NanoVNA H4 I couldn't resist looking inside to see if it was using shielding for the RF components. Turned out it did so I bought the right one. But one thing I noticed was the component silkscreen for a micro SD-card slot without the slot it self and because it still contained the original software which didn't mention anything about saving images to SD cards, I didn't do anything with it.  

Until now . . . (continue reading)

Dec 18, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Got my QCXmini kit from QRPLabs and finished it. So I added a complete building report (incl designs for the tilt-feet) on this page

Nov 19, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

A few owners of the new NanoVNA H4 have requested me if I could re-design the PCB so male SMA edge connectors can be used to directly connect the adapter PCB to the NanoVNA H4.  For a while I holded it off, but recently I got my hands on a used NanoVNA H4 which I'm very happy with because of the bigger screen (yes my eyes aren't getting better). I started to use the H4 and wanted a dedicated adapter for it. So I measured  my NanoVNA H4 and it has a distance of  39.5mm and comments from other OM's indicate that it's quite constant +- 0.1mm. 

So I made a copy of the original design and changed the board layout to fit our needs. 

continue reading

Oct 23, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I have added 2 pages to the Tools and parts section of this website. 
A rebuild of the K7QO noise generator and a new Dual tone audio oscillator

 

Oct 22, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

For RF applications, one of my favorite ways to build is the ManhattanStyle  and I have build a lot of these circuits in mint tins.  One thing I'm always  struggling with are the  9V batteries holders and on/off switches. So I 3D designed and printed this 9V battery compartment with room for 1 or 2 common cheap PCB push button on/off switches (they come in lock and momentary versions).  continue reading . . . 

Oct 19, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Recently I found a page which described Roy, W7EL, Lewallens Simple & Accurate Directional Wattmeter as it was published in 2/90 QST.  Searching for more information I noticed that W1REX - QRPme also has a updated version of this Simple & Accurate Directional Wattmeter. 

continue reading . . . . 

Aug 19, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I re-ordered the website to have a special kitbuilding section. Check it out : link.

Aug 13, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I added a new for sale page on which I list left-over PCB's. These PCB's are sold at cost price (excl shipping).  

https://www.ph2lb.nl/blog/index.php?page=for-sale-pcbs

Aug 4, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

As of 30 Juli 2020, I'm starting to sell my kits and assembled products on TIndie to see if that works out for me.

Check out my store : 

I sell on Tindie

Jul 25, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I have added 2 new mod pages for the Yaesu FT817/818.
Check them out : modpage1  modpage2

Jul 19, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Book the weekend of August 8 and 9 in your agenda for this event.


Check out : https://www.qsotodayhamexpo.com/

Jul 18, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Do you want to see?

Jul 16, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

When people buy one of my PCB's, kits etc. I ask then if they send me a picture when they build it or using it. Below you find images some OM's send me.

So check out the Customer Gallery.

Jun 19, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Once in a while I've been asked which tools I use for my hobby (both ham radio and model railroad). 

On this page you find a list of tools I find use full. 

Apr 5, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I had a few QRP-labs lowpass filters and bandpass filters kits laying around and because I had nothing better to do this afternoon, I fired up the soldering station and assembled them. After that they need to be tested and tuned.

Mar 24, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Due to the Corona (COVID-19) virus my employer asked us 2 weeks ago to work at home (when possible) to prevent spreading it. This would initially be until 6 April 2020, but  I was expecting that it would be longer. So I had to setup a descent home-office.

Mar 11, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Today I used a new theme on my website because the original one (Simplex) was  responsive but the menu's where almost impossible to navigate on a mobile device.
I will look into that in the near future, but for now I switch to a more old-fashing (non bling bling) theme which atleast works on mobile devices.  

Feb 24, 2020
Category: General
Posted by: lex

While doing the dishes I listening to the Soldersmoke postcast #218 (one of my favourite hamradio podcasts). I heard Bill talk about his HI-Per-Mite CW filter in his uBitx and said that a ham in Belgium home brewed a HI-Per-Mite CW filter for his uBitx and shown the video on the blog. Curious about the video I look at the Soldersmoke website and found out that he meant me
I may not from Belgium, but being linked on a blog / podcast which inspires me a lot, how cool is that?  

Dec 12, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex

My hosting provider has finished the most migrations to a new platform.  After dumping the cache of this CMS and re-generate the pages (got 500 results), everything seems to work well. 

Dec 6, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex

For a few years I have been hunting to get a Yaesu FRG-7 (in a reassemble state and for a reassemble price) and because of the Wadley Loop system and the absolute great vintage design.   

Nov 26, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I have been staling it for many years, but this month it just has to happen. My hosting provider send me a e-mail that within a month they will be migrating there servers and due to a few platform updates (PHP, MySQL, etc) the (very old but stable) version of CMS isn't supported any more.   

Jul 22, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Today I took a few hours to do some re-organizing my website (dumped a few old pages and merged a few) and adding content about 3D printing and my 0 gauge to it.

Jul 3, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex
This small piece of the frequency spectrum (144.0 to 146.0Mhz) is a lot more then just a local chat channel for licensed radio enthusiasts.
Jun 7, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex

A hamradio horror story about a interference problem a local OM Gerald PA3GEG had when his neighbor installed a big lot of non-certified LED tubes to save some money on his electric bill.

May 22, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Hoe zonnepanelen een stoorzender kunnen zijn voor deuropeners, babyfoons, digitaleradio of tv, portofoons etc.

May 22, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Meer panelen op je dak kan niet zo maar, daar moet je wel even over nadenken.
May 17, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Vanmorgen een hele boze buurvrouw aan de deur. . . . 
May 17, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex

My friend and fellow Geek @daveborghuis has started up a cool workshop with 3D printing, lasercutting and foil cutting equipment. Also he gives courses on how to do that equipment and make cool stuff yourself. But thats not all, he also gives coures reagaring Arduino / Lilypad (a wearable Arduino) and custom courses for companies for introduction or as a cool teambuilding event.  

The next course will be workshop lasercutting with inktscape how cool is that?

Check out TwenSpace on Twitter, on FaceBook, on Instagram or there website https://twenspace.nl/.

 

Mar 2, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex

End of “Amateur” Radio?

As a hamradio operator and builder of hamradio stuff I would like to bring to you attention the article below taken from the Hot Iron 103 magazine.

Continue reading . . . .
Feb 5, 2019
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Today I realized that most of the time I publish the my projects first on my Instagram account and then work things out to a article or page on this website. 

So when you want to be up to date on my projects, just follow my Instagram account and be the first to know. :-)
Nov 29, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex
The Yaesu FT897D has a visual zerobeat indicator when the rig is running CW. The LED will light up when you are exact (or atleast close) on frequency with the transmitting party. Having a little room left on the extension PCB in my uBitx, I thought it would be a nice adition to have one based on a LM567 tone detector. 

Continue reading...
Nov 28, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

New mod for my uBitx. I build a HI-PER-MITE 200hz width active audio CW filter which is designed by David Cripe, NM0S (check out the interview with him on QSO Today). The schematic and working is published on the HI-PER-MITE page of the Four State QRP Group.

Continue reading...

Nov 16, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

A few weeks a go I found a stock of suction cups towel holders in my workshop (proberbly bought them years ago) and looking at them the idea came to build a 2m quad antenna that could stick to a window with these suction cups. Continue reading.

Sep 14, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Because I broke my utc clock the "GPS clock with multidrop databus" project was activated again. From the spareparts I had on stock the first steps are made.

Continue reading.....

Aug 11, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Nearby lightning discharge and a LoRaWAN Gateway aint a funny thing.

Continue reading....

Aug 5, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

If been working for a while now Anderson PowerPoles and started to apply them to all my newly build 12V/13.8V powered equipment. But there is some retro fitting to do. Continue reading

Jul 11, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Made some new mods on my uBitx. 

Continue reading.
Jul 10, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

ubitx.net added blog post about my mods. How cool is that :-)

Checkout the post (link)

Jun 25, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

New tool page on how I make my own ManhattanStyle soldering pads.

Continue reading . . .

 

Jun 25, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Things getting in the right direction with my uBitx.

Continue reading.
Jun 6, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

After to much things come in between I finally made time to start boxing up my ubitx.So it's time to get to work in the workshop.  The first I made was a  support for the PCB so I can remove the bottom and get direct acces to the PCB. Then it was drilling time.

Cointinue reading  . . .

Apr 5, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Or a 0 gauge papersize diorama on a A4 standard piece of paper with the size of 297 mm x 210 mm. Continue reading . . . .

Mar 6, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Just some thoughts . . . . Read more.
Feb 28, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Beeing a longtime listener of the SolderSmoke podcast. I have heart many things about the BitX20 radio developed by Ashhar Farhan, VU2ESE. A lot of hams build that rig in variouse ways, but have build and owning a ILER20, a second diy 20m rig wasn't on my list. 

But then the word was said in the postcast that Ashhar has released a new uBitX radio not as kit or just the schematics, but as a ready to experiment module for 40m with a simple VFO for a remarkable low price (just $109 incl shipping). So then things got interesting and in the second week of December 2017 I orderd it and the waiting begun.

Cointinue reading  . . .
Feb 17, 2018
Category: General
Posted by: lex

As many of my website readers know is that I like to build stuff my self and for that I have worked the last 30 years in variouse modelrailroad scales like N, HO, IIm & IIf. But sometimes you have to change to get new inspiration, so when I got my hands on some very nice Lenz Spur-0 freight cars, the idea about a new indoor modelrailroad was born. Read more . . .

Nov 26, 2017
Category: General
Posted by: lex
I found a design of a 3D printed adapter so you can use Anderson Power Pole connectors directly on a FT817(ND). Read more . . .
Oct 24, 2017
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Loving the kits from QRP-Labs, I knew I wanted to buy and build a QCX CW tranceiver the moment Hans Summer announced it. So when it he put it in the QRP-Labs shop I didn't hesitated for a moment and ordered the 40m kit. Read more . . .

Jun 8, 2017
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Hamradio is all about experimenting so once in a while I buy materials, use them and are done experimenting with them. But also some times  buy materials and due to a lag of time don't use them at all in my experiments. . . (read more)
Feb 15, 2017
Category: General
Posted by: lex
New stuff on my Regner C-Kuppler.

Read more
Dec 29, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Got my self a BitX40 module.

Read about it at this page.

Nov 22, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex

LoRA GP antenna - in TTN LoRa crash course

In the LoRa crash course by Thomas Telkamp (a must view when you into LoRa or IOT) at 30:33 this design is referenced.

https://youtu.be/T3dGLqZrjIQ?t=30m33s

Thomas, thanks for the reference :-)


Nov 2, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex

There is a nice archive of vintage Italian Hamradio magazines.

Check it out at : this link.


Aug 16, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Big update on my LoRA / TheThingsNetwork page on this blog.
Check it out : link
Mar 29, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex

2m Preamp

I had plans for months now to build a 2m preamp based on a schematic from SV1BSX a 2m VHF preamp with about 18dB gain (for the schematic checkout this link). Last month I had worked out the component layout for the PCB and recently I had time for a realize this afternoon hamradio project.  . . . read more . . .

Mar 24, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex

. . . . . en weer op een goede manier :-)

Ik ben weer eens gevraagd om het een en ander te demonstreren tijdens een Grootspoorgroep bijeenkokmst in Zetten. Wederom heb ik een Newqida wagon onderhanden genomen en deze keer heb ik hem bijna laten afkeuren.

lees verder . . .

Mar 11, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex

After a busy week I had to have a "get my mind of the some matters" hamradio project. So I looked in my "nice gadgets and stuff for small projects" and found the TTP224 4- Channel Digital Touch Sensor Module's I bought a few months ago on a hamradio event.  Read more . . .

 

Jan 26, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex

As long as I have my Yaesu FT-301 the hunt was on to get a external VFO for that beautifull rig. Unfortunatly that thing is very hard to get, so when Hans Summers stared to sell his Ultimate Arduino Shield kitt on QRP-labs.com idea's were forming in my mind.

Read more . . .

Jan 6, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Added a new mod page : Z817 BNC mod

and a information page : So NO to UHF Connectors

Enjoy the reading.

Jan 2, 2016
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Added a new walk to the Field reports page :  2015 December walks
Dec 4, 2015
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Added a new walk to the Field reports page :  2015 November walks and 2 new project to the project pageSmall portable HF PA and Digimode box

Aug 7, 2015
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Added a few new walks to the Field reports page2015 July walks and 2015 August walks
Jul 29, 2015
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Will VK6UU is busy scanning all the old Australian (VK) Amateur Radio Magazine's and have put them online in a huge archive. They can be found at this link. Absolute a must read.

Also there is a big archive of 73 Magazine. They can be found at this link.

Jul 19, 2015
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Seeing variouse SSB QRP transceiver designs on the internet I have been thinking about building my own QRP SSB transceiver for almost a year now. You can start from scratch but also for starters buy one of the many kits availible from variouse supliers like Pacific Antenna/QRP Kits (Hendriks), YouKits, etc. which can be just a bag of components and a PCB, to a more just montage kind of kit like the kits from Elecraft.

Continue reading on : ILER 20 MK2 QRP SSB

Jun 25, 2015
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Are you a amateur radio operator with a passion for portable operations outside?

Then be sure to check out the Field Radio group on Facebook or there website at http://www.fieldradio.org/, both founded by Joe K9ATG. There you will find lots of other likeminded ham operators, get inspiration for great idea's, can read field radio stories (often including great pictures) and offcourse find lots of information about fieldradio.

May 27, 2015
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Took a extended lunch break for a QRP fieldsetup : 2015 May walks
Feb 6, 2015
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Voor de Nederlandse kijkers een tip : 

Verbindings TV / Journaal op YouTube
Jan 15, 2015
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I have thought about it a long time, but this week I made the call.

I want to experiment with SDR in the shack. It all starts here . . . (read more)

Dec 28, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex
From time to time a pack my bag and go for a short "field" trip to test my antenna's or just to get a moment away from my QTH. Sometimes I make small reports from them and post them here :  Field reports
Nov 7, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex
When you're a hamradio operator and like to build stuff, then you have to listen to the great PodCasts of Bill M0HBR and Mike KL7R : soldersmoke.com and also have to check out there absolute cool blog.
Oct 30, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Although my Ultimate3 was had a nice housing, a few controls where on the back and ther wasn't much room for additional stuff to be added. With that in mind I didn't hesitate a few months  ago when I had the opportunity to get my hands on a batch of nice modular metal plate housings which are by design excellent for filling up with hamradio stuff.

Readmore . . .


Sep 20, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

After looking for a stand for my FT-817 I found the page of OK1CSS Stepan Synekwho made a very simple wire stand for his FT-817. When you have a FT-817 and are looking for a simple, field compatible stand. This is the one.

{cms_selflink page='ft-817-wire-stand' text='Readmore . . . '}

Aug 11, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Added a new Hamradio project to the list. A QRP SWR indicator box.

Check it out at : {cms_selflink page='qrp-swr-indicator-box' text='QRP SWR indicator box'}

Aug 10, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Added a new Hamradio project to the list. A QRP Fuchs Antenna matching unit.

Check it out at : {cms_selflink page='qrp-fuchs-antenna' text='QRP Fuchs Antenna'}

Jul 23, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Updated my Worked Europian locators and DXCC's, check it out at : {cms_selflink page='worked' text='Worked'}

Jun 20, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Added a few aditional articles to hamradio project

check them out.

 

 

Apr 27, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Build a 36dB Attentuator a made small article about it.

Continue reading at {cms_selflink page='36db-attentuator' text='36dB Attentuator'}

Mar 23, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Added a new page group specialy for the Yaesu FT-221R to the {cms_selflink page='mods' text='Mods for HamRadio's'} group.

Check it out at : {cms_selflink page='yaesu-ft-221r-mods' text='Yaesu FT-221R mods'}

 

Mar 14, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

I updated my hamradio projects page.

  • {cms_selflink page='frimatch-antenna-tuner' text='FriMatch antenna tuner'}
  • {cms_selflink page='dipole-box' text='Dipole box'}
  • {cms_selflink page='ultimate3-qrss' text='Ultimate3 QRSS'}
  • {cms_selflink page='oz2cpu-meter' text='OZ2CPU meter'}
Feb 23, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

A while I started to get interested in WSPR and QRSS communication. The fun part of that would be getting as much km / watt with a DIY of kit based baken transmitter.

When looking around for some schematics and kits, I found the website of Hans Summers who has designed the Ultimate3 QRSS kit (link : website ). This kit has the most of what you need onboard for WSPR and QRSS communication and all for a nice price (aprx euro 20,00 / $28,00).

Jan 29, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Today I published my new QSL card design.

Starting to get curious? {cms_selflink page='qsl-card' text='Take a look . . .'}

Jan 7, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Of terwijl internet / ethernet via het stopcontact.

Eerst maar even een verkooppraatje

"Met een set powerline-adapters, ook wel homeplugs of ethernet over power (EoP) genoemd, leg je in no-time een computernetwerk aan via het bestaande elektriciteitsnet in huis. Een powerline-netwerk is een gemakkelijk alternatief voor een bedraad en draadloos netwerk. Een set van 2 adapters is eenvoudig uit te breiden met een losse adapter van hetzelfde merk."

Klinkt mooi he? Nou, er zit wel een klein addertje onder het gras. Of misschien zelfs wel een anaconda.

Lees verder : Home » Ham radio - PH2LB » Information » Powerline Communication

 

Jan 2, 2014
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Hamradio operators need to log there QSO's and many do that the modern way with log programme's. But sometimes paper just works more relaxed. So I made a collection of different logsheets in landscape design (3 qso, 5 qso, 26 qso, 26 contest) you can download for printing. The documents can be found in the HamRadio Download section of the homepage. (link)


Nov 25, 2013
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Informatie voor de bewoners in de Haghoek die rondom mijn huis wonen.

Antennes, vaak ontsieren ze de woonwijk, buurtbewoners zijn er vaak niet blij mee en een enkeling maakt zich zorgen, want je hoort zoveel rare dingen over straling en dat dat schadelijk is veel vragen en antwoorden vind je terug op deze pagina, die speciaal voor de buurtbewoners hier is gemaakt.

Lees verder : {cms_selflink page='voor-de-buren' text='Home » Ham radio - PH2LB » Information » Voor de buurtbewoners'}

Nov 22, 2013
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Today the dutch Agentschap Telecom has confirmed the passing of my Full-License Exam  and from now on my call will be PH2LB .
Nov 6, 2013
Category: General
Posted by: lex

On 6 november 2013 I took the Full License exam and with just 7 errors on the 50 questions I have pasted it . Now it's just waiting for Agentschap Telecom to process it and confirm the result. What my new call will be ?? I don't know yet, but it will be something like my old call. .

Jun 4, 2013
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Because most of the dutch repeaters now need CTCSS to operate, I couldn't use my old Kenwood TS-700G anymore for operations on those repeaters.

How i fixed it ? read more . . .

Mar 21, 2013
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Diorama in IIe - pagina 12

Na een tijdje niks te hebben gedaan aan mijn diorama i.v.m. het studeren voor mijn zendamateur license, toch maar weer een paar dingen lopen knutselen.


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lees verder : Home » Modelbouw » Veldbaan - IIe » Diorama in IIe » pagina 12

Jan 3, 2013
Category: General
Posted by: lex

This year I needed a new challenge to get me throw the autum and winter so I decided to start learning for my amateur radio Novice license. To support the training and getting more acquaint with amateur radio communication I also picking-up a hold hobby of mine : DX listening. . . . read more {cms_selflink page='hamradio' text='Ham radio'}

Jun 23, 2012
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Sinds enige tijd ben ik aan het experimenteren met Instagram onder de naam "lmb_nl" en op een apparte {cms_selflink page='instagram' text='pagina'} zal ik foto's en links naar de betreffende instagram pagina's zetten.

May 31, 2012
Category: General
Posted by: lex
2e Pinksterdag is mijn diorama in zijn bijna uiteindelijke vorm (mis nog steeds die eikenboom die gemaakt moet worden) getoond aan het publiek tijdens een bijzondere rijdag bij het Leemspoor in Rijssen.
Apr 17, 2012
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Na een dag on-inspirerend totaal niet creatief werk op de zaak (offertes doornemen), moest het er even allemaal uit. Het resultaat is een Handhebeldraisine geworden zonder motortje, bedoeld als scenery voor op mijn toekomstige module baan.
Apr 8, 2012
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Tijdens een recent bezoekje aan Modelbouw Atelier Apeldoorn om mijn lang verwachte RSSB onderdelen op te halen, kon ik het niet laten weer eens uitgebreid te snuffelen tussen de verschillende rekken met onderdelen en snuisterijtjes.

Jan 27, 2012
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Er is een start gemaakt met een nieuw veldbaan tankwagentje.
Jul 9, 2011
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Er is een start gemaakt met een nieuw veldbaan wagentje.
May 6, 2011
Category: General
Posted by: lex
De tank lorries beginnen vorm te krijgen.  Zie : link.
Apr 16, 2011
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Er is een update bij de Strüver Schienenkuli. De weathering is voltooid. Zie : link
Nov 8, 2010
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Mijn tussen door projectje Strüver Schienenkuli zit in de verf.
Sep 11, 2010
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Tijdens de openmonumenten dag 2009 was de watertoren in Delden opgesteld voor het publiek en mijn moeder was daar met een vriendin bij toeval beland. . . . . . .

Aug 29, 2010
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Er is een nieuw online forum online :

http://www.rssb-forum.com/rssb-style/site_logo-small.png

Een forum speciaal gericht op de REGNER Schmal Spur Bahn.

 

Jul 21, 2010
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Als een even tussen door projectje ben ik onlangs gestart met de bouw van een Strüver Schienenkuli.
May 18, 2010
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Over het Veldbaan lokje in IIe is een update te melden.
Dec 26, 2009
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Over het Diorama in IIe is een update te melden.
Dec 19, 2009
Category: General
Posted by: lex
Mobiel internet zie je steeds vaker en regelmatig via USB dongels.  Via een actie van T-mobile en de NS heb ik de hand kunnen leggen op een T-Mobile PrePaid Internetstick met wel gesteld euro 2,50 prepaid tegoed.
Dec 5, 2009
Category: General
Posted by: lex

Na weken van voorbereiding is vandaag mijn oude blog vervangen door deze nieuwe website. Regelmatig zal ik in het nieuws topic mededelingen doen die verwijzen naar de gewijzigde en/of nieuwe pagina's op deze website.