UK Microwave Group – Scatterpoint Microwave Newsletter – 2010



SCATTERPOINT – 2010

An Amateur Radio Publication for the Microwave Enthusiast


JANUARY

• 3400MHz Bandpass filter

• ZL EME Echo tests on 5.7GHz

• Evanescent Filter for 23cm EME

• W1GHZ Waveguide slot antenna

• 2010 Contest Rules & Calendar

• Austria 122GHz Long distance QSO


FEBRUARY

• Reverse DDS locking for oscillators

• Phase Noise and MDS

• Transverter in a cardboard box

• Japanese EME 8J1AXA

• New venue for Yorkshire roundtable

• UKuG/BATC joint activity event

MARCH

• Reverse DDS Part-2

• Thales TGTR-23 on 24GHz

• GB3CSB Beacon

• GB75CH/GB75BRS Radar anniversary

• Microwaves in Russia UA3MCJ,

• Finningley Roundtable programme


APRIL

• Mike Dixon G3PFR Silent Key

• 2300MHz spectrum release in EI

• Elcom CDFSL Synthesisers

• BFQ136 3 Watt Driver for 1296MHz

• Parabolic Antenna Calculations

• Dish feed and spillover at 1296MHz

MAY

• Echoes of Apollo weekend in ZL

• 3cm or bust!

• Software Defined Radio at 144MHz

• RAL Roundtable Report

• Useful Solder Source

• Lowband Contest Results


JUNE

• Multiplier using a modified LNB

• JT4 Data for the UKuG RDDS

• QRP2000 synthesiser review

• 47GHz feedhorn for an Offset dish

• RF Solutions GPS 1513R Module

• External Mixer/frequency extender

JULY / AUGUST

• Noise source calibration

• Breakfast in East Anglia

• Lidl LNB mod for 10GHz preamp

• Recycling 900MHz hybrids for 23cm

• EME: A case of Moth Ears

• New 10GHz World Records


SEPTEMBER

• Installing a DB6NT 500W SSPA

• 28V DC Power supply

• The Forecast for the Weekend…

• ATV Network Day Report

• Finningley Microwave weekend report

• ZL – Disaster Strikes UKuG Member

OCTOBER

• Texas 14th EME Conference Report

• The Fraser Shepherd Award

• Bending tool for 141 semi rigid

• Surplus motor for dish control

• Installing a 1.7m dish on 10GHz

• Ray Pounder G3DVQ SK


NOVEMBER / DECEMBER

• Scatterpoint delivery changes

• Laser Transceiver revisited

• PTT mod for the Standard C58 2m Tx

• G4JNT path calculation spreadsheet

• CW operating table ideas

• 2010 Contest Results