playing with bits

I recently acquired a nice Anritsu MF76A 18GHz frequency counter in a non-working state off of eBay. While older, this is still a very usab...

Ham radio operation on 10GHz and above is one of the many things that finally persuaded me to get my ham license. I love RF design, special...

Earlier this year I built the first version of my frequency synthesizer which was to provide a stable local oscillator frequency of 5.4Ghz. ...

The Dayton Hamvention was this past weekend (May 17th - 19th) and after many years of wanting to go and not going for various reasons, I fi...

After finally completing the power supply for my RF front end last week, I spent some time tonight assembling the power supply onto the back...

Today I received my power supply boards for the RF frond end of my radio telescope. Due to the number of amplifiers and the voltage requirem...

I have been needing a stable 10Ghz oscillator for a few projects I have been working on and was able to pick this brick up for pretty cheap...

I am excited to finally be able to say that my radio telescope is starting to come together. This morning I worked on another major componen...

The Spectrum Analyzer is by far the most important piece of gear for any RF design work, unfortunately spectrum analyzers are also one of th...

For years I have used RG-58 cable for my antenna systems, it is inexpensive, easy to work with, and for short runs it works just fine. Last ...