The built-in tuner of my Icom IC-7300 can only tune up to an SWR of 3:1 without enabling the emergency mode, this emergency mode will limit the power to 50W average power. As I want to have the possibility to use more power if I need to, an external tuner is the only way to …
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10/20/40m End-Fed antenna
I don’t have the luxury of being able to place a high antenna mast, therefore I started looking for an easy to place and yet good to use HF antenna. The End-Fed antenna seems to be a good choice so this is my main antenna currently (since summer 2020), an End-Fed designed for 10, 20 …
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Icom IC-7300
My first HF/6m/4m transceiver is the popular Icom IC-7300. I think it is one of the best selling HF sets of the last few years (as of 2020). The IC-7300 employs an RF direct sampling system, where RF signals are directly convert to digital data. This digital data is then processed in the FPGA (Field-Programmable …
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