The Arduino micro-controller's are very popular, however sometimes they are just not powerful enough. A lot of home-brewing ham's tend to switch to a Raspberry-Pi in this case, however often this isn't just the elegant solution they look for. A Raspberry Pi compared to e.g.

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If you have never seen these video's you should !!

TXFACTOR is a very high quality youtube-channel and companion website fully dedicated to Ham Radio.
The video's these guy's make are absolutely professional grade !!

• Read more about TX Factor 23 is here!

For those of us who like get informed with some predictions about future radio propagation probably know the website "spaceweather.com"

It's a nice place to stay informed about sunspots and solar activity, but what if you could have that news audio-visual ??

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Activity on the first geo-stationary Ham-Radio satellite is full swing now !!

It's nice to see how power levels of as low as a few 100 mW with a cheap consumer satellite dish are sufficient for a transmission distance of 36.000 km ...

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When I was at the "Dag van de Radio-Amateur" or "Ham Radio day" in the Netherlands recently, I've met this interesting Ham Ha, PA5HE.

He's been busy converting several old CB radio's into Ham Radio transceivers for the 4 meter or 70 MHz band.

• Read more about Converting CB radios to 70 MHz