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Practical Wireless - November 2024

Reviews of a soldering station, a short-wave receiver and a preselector. Meet the presenter of TX Factor. A multiband antenna and a refurb of a classic amplifier. And all your regular columns!

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Practical Wireless - November 2024

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Keylines
Licensing, G3UML and Conventions are Don’s topics for this month.

Review: KSGER T12 Soldering Iron
Michael Jones GW7BBY/GB2MOP enthuses about a reasonable priced soldering station.

Triband Elevated Vertical
Billy McFarland GM6DX builds a simple portable multiband antenna.

The Face behind the Call 
Roger Dowling G3NKH meets Bob McCreadie G0FGX, a presenter of amateur radio’s own popular television show ‘TX Factor’, as it celebrates its tenth birthday.

Protocol Wars
Joe Chester M1MWD shares some of the trials and tribulations but also benefits of digital voice systems.

More bands than you expected
Ken Ruiz ZB2MD outlines ways of getting more out of limited antenna space.

The SDRplay RSPdx R2 Receiver and the Stampfl WAVEBLOCK Preselector
Georg Wiessala checks out an interesting wideband receiver and a specialist preselector.

Data Modes
Mike Richards G4WNC looks at a cheap but effective way of running a WSPR beacon using the latest software.

Valve & Vintage
Philip Moss M0PBM looks at a New Zealand receiver that appears to be closely related to the once-popular PCR series.

HF Highlights
As well as news of recent activity, Steve Telenius-Lowe G4JVG looks forward to a busy couple of months ahead, with two major contests and plenty of DXpeditions to chase.

Antennas
Keith Rawlings G4MIU catches up on reader feedback, both of which have a ‘common’ (there is a pun there somewhere) theme.

Vintage Television & Radio
Keith Hamer and Garry Smith continue the special series looking back at the BBC’s coverage of Coronations since 1937, focusing on the important role of sound broadcasting. There is also a vintage Coronation advertisement from the archives for television cabinets. There are more unique details about Roland Pièce, the pioneer of Swiss radio broadcasts. The series charting the rise and fall of BBC 198kHz transmissions focuses on the two long-wave stations in Scotland. Coverage detailing 60 years of BBC-2 looks at how the new service was distributed. They also continue the series about the development of Swiss Radio and Television since 1922, with the closure of short-wave radio and the start of digital television.

Refurbishing an SB200 Amplifier
Martin Evans GW4TPG describes the challenge of refurbishing a classic Heathkit amplifier to make it suitable for use in a modern shack.

A Lab Tutorial
Jeff takes Natalie through the basics of electromagnetism.

The World of VHF
Tim Kirby GW4VXE starts this month’s column with a fascinating account of GM0ICF’s meteor scatter QSO on 70cm.

Book Review
Don checks out some more books from the RSGB.

Readers’ Letters
This month’s Letters again talk about on-air activity, and there is even more nostalgia!

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