26 October 2018

Industria Macchine Elettroniche IME-141 - eeeeeerror

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I let my daughter play with IME-141 calculator. Since a calculator is boring if you don't have maths to do, she pressed few buttons at t...
06 October 2018

FM radio for the bathroom - followup

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This is a follow-up to my previous post about an FM radio for the bathroom morning routine . The good old Samsung Galaxy S (i9000) does a w...
13 September 2018

Rethinking my mobile setup

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Alright, the shortened UHF-only Nagoya UT-106 is back in service. I added a piece of RG-58 with PL-259 so that I could measure SWR. But just...
06 September 2018

Nagoya UT-106 intermittent signal

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Now that I was enjoying trouble-free mobile HAMming, my modified Nagoya UT-106 developed a fault causing intermittent reception. Moving the...
03 September 2018

FM radio for the morning routine: September 2018 attempt

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Following my previous post on two attempts at joining the morning news and the morning bathroom routine, in both cases something is too wro...
01 September 2018

FM radio for the morning routine

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The "old-style" replacement RX-16F I was appointed an apparently simple task from a family member: have an FM radio in the ba...
27 August 2018

Flea markets in Croatia

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I think Croatia's population of 4.1 million does not justify the presence of thrift stores. In fact I could not locate one that would s...
13 July 2018

Nagoya UT-106 modified for UHF only

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Over the past days I could spend few minutes with the UT-106, study the problem and solutions. 1. Magnet. The magnet is stuck to a metal...