Icom Announced ID-4100 DStar Mobile Radio Icom Japan announced yesterday, 17th February 2017, the ID-4100 Mobile DStar VHF/UHF mobile radio. The radio will come with the new terminal and access point modes that are found in the latest handheld from the company, the ID-51A PLUS2. The terminal mode allows the …
TYT MD-2017 Dual Band DMR First Image TYT just released the first ever image of the upcoming TYT MD-2017 dual band DMR handheld radio. Back in November, a photo of a poster from PMR expo 2016 was published online, showing the MD-2017 model. At the time it was still …
New Yaesu FT-25R and FT-65R Handheld Radios I just became aware of two new handheld radios from Yaesu. The FT-25R and the FT-65R. The FT-25R is a single band VHF radio with 5W of power and IP54 rating. It comes with a 1950mAh Li-Ion battery and a larger capacity, 2500mAh …
Yaesu FT-991/A Firmware Upgrades Released on January 16th. Yaesu has released firmware upgrades for both the FT-991 and its successor the FT-991A HF/50/144/430 MHz radios. There are no significant release notes for the firmware upgrades, other than a mere “Improved and optimized” note. This most likely means that the firmware …
ASUS Released Raspberry Pi Contender Asus has quietly released a Raspberry Pi contender, named Tinker Board. It is about the same size as the Pi, but its quad-core Rockchip processor can play 4K video and 24-bit audio. Great news, if you want to get one for a home media center, …
Xiegu X5105 Pre-Production Test Videos and new images. There have been a couple of fellow hams that received pre-production versions of the upcoming Xiegu X5105 QRP radio. All images, videos and information on the radio posted here (unless otherwise stated) are courtesy of Wayne 2E0BVJ. Thank you Wayne! The radio …
This is the Leixen N8 Frequency Meter Review video. In this video I am reviewing the Leixen N8 frequency meter. A frequency meter is a device you that can show you the transmitting frequency of a radio. For example, you have a radio without a display and you would like …
CIA Documents About Ham Radio Declassified In case you haven’t heard, CIA has recently released online around 13 million pages of declassified documents. Among these documents, a set of reports on ham radio in the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact member countries have been made available. The documents …
Icom IC-7200 Back In Production There has been some chatter about this for a few weeks now. Yesterday, the following post from Icom America‘s facebook page confirmed it: The IC-7200 was in production between 2007 and 2016, when it was discontinued. But, apparently, Icom realized that they should start producing …
Keychain QRP is definitely the world’s smallest HF ham radio transmitter. This little CW transmitter will allow you to have a transmitter everywhere you go. It has an SMA female connector and outputs 160 mW max with a 9V battery. The specifications state that you can just connect any random-length …
