QRP amateur radio

1. What's possible

2. QRP activity

3. QRP frequencies

4. Ten steps to QRP success

5. QRP awards/contests

6. QRP equipment

7. Suggested QRP projects

8. QRP club

9. QRP mailing list

Antennas

1. A compact L-match ATU for portable use

2. The versatile end-fed wire PDF ebook version

3. Bi-square antenna for 10m (video)

4. The 'Shoddytenna': 160m vertical for portable use

5. Antennas for confined spaces  

6. A home station magnetic loop for 160 to 15m

7. Pedestrian mobile magnetic loop for 40 to 10 metres

8. SummerLoop II: Pedestrian mobile magnetic loop for 20 to 6 metres

9. Pedestrian mobile HF whip

10. Build a hanging dipole for 2m PDF ebook version

Product reviews

1. Ten Tec R4020 CW QRP transceiver (video)

2. OzQRP MST400 SSB transceiver (video)

3. Xtal Set Society QRP Attenuator (video)

amateur radio construction projects

Receiving

1. A simple crystal set

2. Novel crystal set requires no antenna, earth

3. Regenerative AM receiver

4. Superregenerative VHF receiver (video)

5. Listening on 160 metres

6. 3.5 MHz direct conversion receiver

7. 3.5 MHz superhet receiver

8. Hear Amateurs on your shortwave radio PDF ebook version

9. LF to HF converter 

10. High quality AM through your FM stereo

11. Hear Amateurs on your FM radio

12. Car radio tunes the amateur bands

13. Hear amateurs on your 27 MHz CB (video)

14.  50 MHz to 146 MHz converter  

15.  Glass CW audio filter (video)

Transmitting

1. Frequency agile 3.5 MHz CW transmitter

2.  'Tiny Toy' 7 MHz CW transceiver (video)

3.  'Bigger Toy' 7 MHz CW transceiver (video)

4.  3.5 MHz DSB transmitter 

5.  'Beach 40' 7 MHz DSB transceiver

6.  'BitX' 7 MHz SSB transceiver (video)

7.  One Valve CW transmitter 

8. Two Valve CW transmitter

9. Wide-swing variable crystal oscillator

10.  RF actuated CW monitor 

11.  Morse adaptor for your VHF/UHF FM rig

12. A two-way Morse practice set

13. Automatic Morse CQ caller (video)

amateur radio articles (kept current)

1. Australian amateur radio FAQ (link)

2. Getting licensed

3. First contacts PDF ebook version

4. An HF primer - Part 1 PDF ebook version

5. An HF primer - Part 2 PDF ebook version

6. A VHF/UHF primer PDF ebook version

7. Voice repeater basics PDF ebook version

8. Your first HF transceiver PDF ebook version

9. HamBabble - making sense of what's said on the bands PDF ebook version

10. Radio contesting

11. Transmitting on 160 metres

12. Ten metres for the newcomer PDF ebook version

13. Making the most of Sunspot Cycle 24

14. HF portable the simple way PDF ebook version

15. HF QRP pedestrian mobile

16. Transmitting from public transport  

17. Amateur radio direction finding

18. Amateur radio's 'hidden curriculum'

19. A guide to radio test equipment PDF ebook version

20. Homebrewing for the novice

21. Radio hints and tips

22. Exploring rechargeable batteries

Amateur radio articles (historical interest only)

1. Computers in amateur radio

2. An introduction to packet radio

3. Introduction to Internet Repeater Linking  

4. Operating from tall buildings

VK3YE YouTube channel

Over 100 videos on various aspects of amateur radio

Amateur radio mini-ebooks

Right click to save onto your Kindle or other portable reader (PDF files).

1. First contacts (start here)

2. An HF primer

3. Your first HF transceiver

4. HF portable the simple way

5. Hear amateurs on your shortwave radio

6. Ten metres for the newcomer

7. The versatile end-fed wire

8. A VHF/UHF primer

9. Voice repeater basics

10. Build a hanging dipole for 2 metres

11. A guide to radio test equipment

12. Ham Babble - making sense of what's said on the bands

Test equipment

1. QRP power meter

2. Simple test equipment to build

3.  Dip oscillator for HF 

4. 3 - 12 MHz Signal generator

5.  CMOS IC audio oscillator

6. Dual tone audio oscillator

7. 1A variable regulated power supply

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