{"id":132,"date":"2014-06-22T19:15:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2022-04-06T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:13:33","slug":"my-humble-radio-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/my-humble-radio-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"My Humble Radio Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have hopefully finished battering the credit card (well for now), and have the radio and ancillaries, the next purchase will be the external aerial, but I will do another page on that.<\/p>\n<p>I decided on a Kenwood TS-2000 multi-band transceiver as this will give me all the flexibility I believe I require, this is powered by a EP-925 PSU with an output current of 25A and a peak of 30A. All the reviews on this power supply were right in that it is really noisy when the cooling fan kicks in, I have done the mod which is all over the internet and is simply a 1.5K resistor in series with the thermostat, this &#8216;fools&#8217; the cooling fan circuit and has the fan running at a very low speed all the time, should the thermostat open due to high temperature, the fan will go to full speed and full cooling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SAM_5009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-137\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SAM_5009-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SAM_5009\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SAM_5009-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SAM_5009-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also bought a Signalink mainly in preparation for PSK31 when I get the aerial sorted, I will also explore all other data modes when I get the chance, the Signalink is configure to Radio Ham Deluxe program and works really well, again I copied others in downloading Skype so I can remote into the TS-2000 from a laptop, currently my license allows me to do this only from within the house as it is still classed as being attended, a full license holder can use this in remote mode away from the house.<\/p>\n<p>I imported a MFJ-949E Antenna Matching Unit, this is not connected to anything yet, but looks nice \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SAM_5012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SAM_5012-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"SAM_5012\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SAM_5012-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.chatteris.biz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/SAM_5012-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have hopefully finished battering the credit card (well for now), and have the radio and ancillaries, the next purchase will be the external aerial, but I will do another page on that. 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