Amateur Radio – Golb.be

New PCB for the Automatic Magnetic Loop Tuner with extra features

Reviving a hardware project often means revisiting past designs-and sometimes, embracing the lessons they teach. After months of redrawing schematics…

Changes made to the code to be able to run on a Teensy 4.0

To be able to run the code for the Automatic Magnetic Loop Tuner, that was written for a Teensy 3.2,…

Running the Automatic Magnetic Loop Tuner on a Teensy 4.0

I’m very happy to announce that I managed to get the Automatic Magnetic Loop Tuner project code running on a…

To Do List For 2024

Porting the Autmatic Magnetic Loop Tuner project to the Teensy 4.0 platform Building a Nano CW keyer https://github.com/k3ng/k3ng_cw_keyer/tree/master Describing and…

Z-Match – Soldering It All Together

Now that the two toroids are prepared, and everything is already mounted into the enclosure lid, we can start soldering…

Z-Match – Winding Toroid T2

The project descibes to use a FT37-43 toroid. This toroid is manufactured by Amidon. I’m using a similar toroid made…

Z-Match – Winding Toroid T1

Green wire, 5 turns Start with the green wire. In the parts list it is stated this wire should be…

Z Match – Preparing The Enclosure

The original design features the Radio-Shack P/N 270-233 box, wich measures 5″ 1/16 x 2″ 5/8 x 1″ 5/8. I…

Z Match – Preparing The Poly Capacitors

The capacitors that are used in this ATU are CMB-443BF’s. You can find them on AliExpress. These capacitors are used…

QRP Labs QCX – CAT & Key Interface – Released

Participate in contests with ease with your QCX. Use N1MM+ to log your contacts and to send signal reports. With…

QRP Labs QCX – CAT & Key Interface Design

Using the CAT interface of the QCX it was already possible to retrieve it’s frequency in N1MM. I made great…

Icom External Keypad V1.21 – Released

I released the project files of the Icom External Keypad V1.21. You can find them on the Icom External Keypad…