VE2EK-9Q1EK Ham Shack A Homebrewer's Paradise

Georges Schleger, United Nations Director of Snr Broadcast Technologies in 9Q (Democratic Republic of Congo), has quite an impressive homebrew setup that you will want to see. His equipment assemblies remind me a lot of the many prototype builds I've done over the years for various systems for radars, satellite earth stations, and land radio systems. If you're a builder at heart, you will appreciate Georges' handiwork. Few things beat the satisfaction of connecting a bunch of filters, amplifiers, attenuators, couplers, and cables together and then making measurements to test your predictions.

Posted February 2013

Johanson Technology Prototyping Kit - RF Cafe Website

RF Cafe began life in 1996 as "RF Tools" in an AOL screen name web space totaling 2 MB. Its primary purpose was to provide me with ready access to commonly needed formulas and reference material while performing my work as an RF system and circuit design engineer. The World Wide Web (Internet) was largely an unknown entity at the time and bandwidth was a scarce commodity. Dial-up modems blazed along at 14.4 kbps while tying up your telephone line, and a lady's voice announced "You've Got Mail" when a new message arrived...