Students call space station with home-built radio
Story from the Globe and Mail -
'Students call space station with home-built radio'
73 Trevor M5AKA Amateur Radio Daily RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/
I didn't know that Icom was selling kits.
Kelly
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Trevor m5aka@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Story from the Globe and Mail -
'Students call space station with home-built radio'
73 Trevor M5AKA Amateur Radio Daily RSS News: http://www.southgatearc.org/
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--- On Tue, 3/2/09, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't know that Icom was selling kits.
I did wonder myself, the story doesn't actually say which part of the system was "home-built".
Back in the 1920's Radio Amateurs build their own components (resistors etc), these days things have moved on and we develop systems that can embody complete transceivers as a component-part.
73 Trevor M5AKA
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ICOM IC-V8000 (from Radioworld) transceiver, Hygain Two-Meter Oscar antenna, Yaesu G-5500 rotor.
73 de W4AS Sebastian
On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Trevor wrote:
--- On Tue, 3/2/09, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't know that Icom was selling kits.
I did wonder myself, the story doesn't actually say which part of the system was "home-built".
Back in the 1920's Radio Amateurs build their own components (resistors etc), these days things have moved on and we develop systems that can embody complete transceivers as a component-part.
73 Trevor M5AKA
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