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. 

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.

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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. 

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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 . . . . 

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. 

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