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Holiday Comms
Easter holidays are here again and I’m visiting North Devon with my Clansman PRC320. I’ve been experimenting with the SPDX contest. Some predictions showed that 20m would be the best bet in the daytime with perhaps some action on 40m in the evening. Unfortunately my holiday home faces 180 degrees in the wrong direction so […]
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A real test for Clansman
I’ve had an old Clansman PRC-320 for a while now and recently modified it to add lower side band modulation (LSB) to make it more useful on the amateur radio bands. It’s had a little testing at home but with the Christmas holidays starting it seemed like now would be a good time to test […]
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Software defined or hardware defined – which is better?!?
This weekend I upgraded my 1970s-era PRC-320 HF radio to include new functionality for amateur radio use – adding an S-meter, correcting the military 2 kHz frequency offset, enabling LSB, and replacing a few tired components. Every time I open one of these sets I’m reminded how remarkable older engineering can be. Built by Plessey […]