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Ham Radio Workbench Podcast


This podcast is your bi-weekly deep dive on making, DIY, electronics, and technical topics of interest to the ham radio operator. Join your hosts George KJ6VU and Jeremy KF7IJZ as they discuss current developments in ham radio while introducing listeners to a plethora of topics and skills such as test equipment, 3D Printing, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and more.

Jul 18, 2017

This week, George and Jeremy talk with Brian Yee W6BY, about building and operating ham radio gear for the microwave bands. There is a surprising amount of activity in the microwave spectrum and getting on the air is easier than you might think.

Micro:Bit Microcontroller platform  www.microbit.org

George does a webinar about designing the Workbench power management PCB project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEQvaXnt7Bo&t=2430s


Order your BitX 40 QRP 40M radio kit - http://www.hfsigs.com/

The perfect Ham Radio Computer?  The Asus Transformer Mini T102HA - https://www.asus.com/2-in-1-PCs/ASUS-Transformer-Mini-T102HA/

Brian Yee W6BY presents “Amateur Radio in the Bands Above 1 GHz” at BayCon 2017

http://www.bay-net.org/docs/baycon2017/microwave_ops.pdf

Brian works on an old earth station written up in CQ VHF

http://www.jamesburgdish.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=MxX1eY3BIK8%3D&tabid=544&mid=1040

Brian Yee W6BY on microwave comms for ham radio – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RGIzYZQKGA

Microwave Update 2017 – Santa Clara California, October 26-29 http://www.microwaveupdate.org/

Down East Microwave https://www.downeastmicrowave.com/

Khune Electronic Microwave Components https://www.kuhne-electronic.de/

Paul K1GHZ Microwave kits http://www.w1ghz.org/

50 MHz and Up Group – Northern California http://www.50mhzandup.org/

San Bernardino Microwave Society SBMS http://www.ham-radio.com/sbms/

George’s Blog - http://www.kj6vu.com/

Bay Net - http://www.bay-net.org