Ramblings by K6RJ

In a previous post I mentioned that this week I would be on a business trip to northern California and that I was looking forward to remotely operating my SDR-1000 and my FT-450 from San Francisco.  While it is a distance of just over 400 miles, as the crow flies, previously I had only operated [...]

The 2010 CW NA QSO Party is in the books.  This was the first large event that I particpated in using  the SDR1K.  I had a great time though I logged only 105 QSOs during the 12 hours of the QP.  I had to take a couple hour break Saturday afternoon and had to knock [...]

When my SDR-1000 arrived it came with everything I needed to install it except for the fact that my PC did not have a Firewire port.  Of course, the resolution wasn’t as simple as installing just any old Fireware card.  The folks at Flexradio recommend that you use a Firewire card that uses a TI [...]

I recently made the decision to upgrade my SDR from the SDRTec Wonderradio to the Flexradio SDR-1000.  I made this decision for 2 reasons.  First, my Wonderradio was the 1 watt version with no antenna tuner.  The Wonderradio worked well but QRP is not for me.   By the time I bought an external 100W [...]