{"id":15579,"date":"2016-07-28T11:04:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=15579"},"modified":"2022-05-31T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:00:00","slug":"radcom-plus-vol-2-no-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/radcom-plus\/2016\/07\/28\/radcom-plus-vol-2-no-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RadCom Plus, Vol. 2, No. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgbmembers.services\/login?id=5643\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6156 alignright\" title=\"To read this edition, tap or click here\" src=\"https:\/\/thersgb.org\/images\/radcom_plus\/issue-4-cover-200px.png\" alt=\"Cover image: Homebrew 70cm handheld by DL3ETW.\" width=\"198\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>To read this edition, tap or click cover image <\/strong><\/em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21653\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2019\/01\/key-icon.png\" alt=\"Membership Services login required to access this resource\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Contents<\/h3>\n<p><strong>4 Third Method narrowband direct upconverter for the LF\/ME bands<\/strong><br \/>\nFollowing on from the circuit published in the May 2016 RadCom, Andy Talbot, G4JNT discusses the issues and solutions for making a direct SSB upconverter that is suitable for audio or digital modes<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 A journey into microwaves<\/strong><br \/>\nMark Jones, G0MGX gives us a starter for 10GHz, explaining a relatively inexpensive way to start transmitting on this interesting band\u2014including making some of your own test equipment<\/p>\n<p><strong>16 Arduino SDR concept<\/strong><br \/>\nAntony Watts, M6KWH condenses a seven week course on understanding and using the Arduino microcontroller with a practical look at how to make your own software-defined radio<\/p>\n<p><strong>25 Superhet ganging and tracking<\/strong><br \/>\nAmateurs tend to avoid the issues surrounding ganging and tracking of superhet receivers as \u2018too complicated\u2019\u2014Peter Chadwick, G3RZP addresses the problems and helps with the necessary calculations<\/p>\n<p><strong>28 A 70cm handheld using the DRA818U module<\/strong><br \/>\nCan you build a 70cm handheld on perfboard? Why not? Clemens Verstappen, DL3ETW shows us how, with a little cunning and a magic module, you can make your own very interesting radio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To read this edition, tap or click cover image Contents 4 Third Method narrowband direct upconverter for the LF\/ME bands Following on from the circuit published in the May 2016 RadCom, Andy Talbot, G4JNT discusses the issues and solutions for making a direct SSB upconverter that is suitable for audio or digital modes 10 A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radcom-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}