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PMR446 vs. CB Radio vs. Freenet: Which Licence-Free Radio Is Right for You?
Transmitting without a licence, is that possible? Yes, through several radio services open to everyone in Austria and across Europe. The choice is confusing though: PMR446, CB radio, LPD433, Freenet. Which of these are actually legal…
DXpeditions: Planning, Logistics, and Activating Rare Entities
DXpeditions activate rare entities for DX hunters worldwide. The effort behind them ranges from a long weekend on a nearby island to an icebreaker expedition with a seven-figure budget. This article explains how planning, permits, logistics,…
Stealth Antennas for Apartments and HOAs: Invisible Operation
There are two kinds of radio amateurs without an antenna. Those who are not allowed one, and those who do not dare to ask. Both end up at the same question: how do you run a…
LoRa Gateway with an Amateur Radio Licence: Bridging RF and IP Networks
LoRa devices carry messages over kilometres, but somewhere that RF traffic has to cross into an IP network: the internet, HAMNET or a map. That is what a gateway does. Holding an amateur licence lets you…
Antenna Tuners: Manual vs. Automatic — Which Is Better?
Few pieces of gear in the shack are as widely misunderstood as the matching unit. Everybody calls it an antenna tuner, and the name is the first thing that misleads: the antenna is not being tuned…
Meshtastic, MeshCore and MeshCom in the waterfall: reading LoRa with OpenWebRX+
Until recently, finding out whether there is real mesh activity in your valley meant putting up a node and waiting. There is another way now: OpenWebRX+ decodes LoRa packets right in the browser , covering Meshtastic,…
Understanding Baluns and Ununs: Proper Impedance Matching
Few components in a shack are bought as often and understood as rarely as the balun. It is treated as a cure for poor SWR, for interference on the neighbour's television and for RF on the…
Meshtastic in Practice: Off-Grid Messaging with LoRa Mesh
Sending text messages, sharing GPS positions and receiving sensor data, without the internet, without a mobile network, without mains power. And all of it with hardware costing around 35 euros. What sounded like a niche project…
New POTA website: next.pota.app is in public beta
Parks on the Air is rebuilding its platform, and since 31 August 2026 you can watch it happen: next.pota.app is available as a public beta. It runs alongside the familiar site, uses the same production database…
Radio from the eternal ice: Neumayer Station III and DP0GVN
In 2023, 160 pupils from Hermagor worked Antarctica via QO-100. On 20 September, someone who actually lived down there comes to Villach and tells how it really was.
Icom IC-7110: the X-026 concept becomes a production radio
For four months the X-026 was a mock-up without a spec sheet. At the Tokyo Ham Fair Icom finally answered: it is the IC-7110, successor to the IC-7100. What is confirmed, what is missing — and why the 70 MHz on the spec sheet is its own story in Austria.
Amplifiers: Selection, Safety and Grounding
An amplifier buys you about one and a half S-units — along with high voltage, heat, mains current and a stack of regulations. What is actually permitted in Austria, how tubes and LDMOS differ, how to set up drive, ALC and grounding properly, and what to check when buying used.
