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About the Rosetta comet landing mission

The Rosetta mission to study Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is getting ready to land the Philae probe on the comet surface, and…

11 years ago

VHF/UHF transceiver module for US$12 – Dorji DRA818

Dorji 808/818 are a series of FM transceiver modules based on RDA Micro's RDA1845/6 chipsets (yes, the ones in the…

11 years ago

Portable SDR transceiver with integrated VNA and GPS

The field of amateur Software Defined Radio is moving quickly nowadays and the latest spawn is something really interesting: a…

11 years ago

An amateur radio beacon will fly to the moon and back

Also called the 4M, Manfred Memorial Moon Mission will travel to the Moon and hopefully back to Earth aboard the…

11 years ago

Noble NR4SC – monoband QRP TRX for 70MHz band

Noble NR4SC is a new transceiver for the 70MHz ham-radio band, supporting SSB and CW and offering an output of…

11 years ago

Yaesu FT-991 – replacement for the FT-897

Update: pricing and user manuals can be found here. Yaesu FT-991 is the next upcoming model from Yaesu, as the…

11 years ago

Optibeam OB21-3 – largest 20-15-10m antenna

Optibeam just launched a set of 4 huge HF antennas, and the OB21-3 is definetely the one that caught my…

12 years ago

Yaesu FT-897D is discontinued

  Yaesu FT-897/D is undoubtedly a bestseller, offering DC-to-daylight (actually 0.1 to 470 MHz) coverage, field day ready style and…

12 years ago

SunSDR-MB1 – finally a proper modern transceiver

Expert Electronics' SunSDR-MB1 is what I've been expecting from the amateur radio industry for some time: a transceiver using modern…

12 years ago

Elecraft KX3 2m option is available

Elecraft KX3 is one of the most interesting transceivers on the market today: very high performance, very low current drain,…

12 years ago