Homebrew Ham Radio Projects - Tools and Storage

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Published on Thursday, 18 August 2011 00:49
Written by David L Norris

A good variety of tools will serve you well.  The proper tools can make or break a project.

Ideally, you will need a few different types of tools.  You can never have too many tools.

ToolsThe key is organizing these tools so you can remember you have them, see immediately if a tool is misplaced and find the correct tool instantly.  The time you spend trying to use the wrong tool or trying to find a misplaced tool is time wasted.  At best, its distracting.  At worst you can damage something.


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Ultimeter 2000 Pinouts and Parsers

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Published on Wednesday, 15 October 2003 19:16
Written by David L Norris
Peet Bros Ultimeters are old school weather stations that have served Ham Radio operators for quite a long time.  I have an Ultimeter 2000 and previously had a Ultimeter-II.  I was once a tester of various equipment in the late 90s.  Bill Peet himself gave me my Ultimeter 2000 in exchange for feedback and to help me develop some Ham Radio interfaces for it.  The original XASTIR weather parsing code, APRSWorld parser and several other APRS applications used the code I wrote with this setup from Bill.  Thanks Bill!  
I was always a bit frustrated by the hardware documentation.  So I spoke with Jim, their engineer at the time, and he sent me a pile of poorly formatted Word Documents and I put together a full set of pinouts for all the various ports and accessories.  I hope you will find these diagrams useful.  I also have provided the original Peet Bros parser code I wrote in ANSI C and Jonathan Bradshaw's perl based parser.

Homebrew Ham Radio Projects - Components

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Published on Tuesday, 12 July 2011 22:56
Written by David L Norris

Ham Radio has always been about building your own equipment.  Now, sure, you can study, get a license and go buy almost anything you need.  But historically that has not been the case.  When I was younger pretty much everyone had built a Heath Kit or Conar or some other piece of gear at one point or another and almost everyone had built their own antennas.  This is a very valuable learning experience and I strongly encourage everyone, ham or not, to build something of their own.

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