Category: HF
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Tune your antenna
I’ve committed heinous acts in HF. Since my primary rig is a Xiegu G90 and the built-in antenna tuner can tune up a wet paper bag I’ve put tuning my antennas on the back burner. Well no more! This past Easter weekend I rolled out my 4SQRP EFHW from this article/video with my tiny radio…
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4 State QRP EFHW Antenna Kit Build
The 4 State QRP EFHW antenna kit ($16) is a super cool little compact matching unit and antenna. It can be built as a random wire or an end fed half wave. The only thing you need to supply is the antenna wire. This is the first torroid I’ve wound and I’ve found their instruction…
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Loose Xiegu G90 Cat Control Cable
In this video I showed how I fixed my loose cat control cable for my Xiegu G90. Its a pretty quick and easy fix as long as you have a soldering iron. This is for the Xiegu G90 and I use the CE-19 for data interfacing with my computer.
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Wolf River Coils TIA Mega Holder
I’ve been in love with 3D printing for a long time and recently I’ve been getting more interested in designing my own models to print. Most of the things I make a pretty simplistic, i.e. basic shapes measured and modified with booleans. I also really only focus on functionality of my models, I’m not too…
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Xiegu G90, FT8, CE-19, WSJT-X, & FLRig Troubleshooting
UPDATE: I’ve made a video showing this if that format is more palatable for whoever needs it. Putting this out to hopefully reach out and help someone else so they don’t go through the same crazy troubleshooting I did. To get the main problem out of the way, if your symptoms are: You need to…