Ebay is a good place to buy accessories like speaker/mics and headsets for your radios. A few years ago I used it to buy a speaker/mic for m...

A couple of years ago I won a 25 year old "spares or repair" Kenwood TH-205E for a few pounds in an eBay auction. I successfully r...

Ever since my outing on to Ling Fell yesterday I have been bugged by not knowing for sure whether the problems I experienced with the VX-8GR...

My FoxTrak APRS tracker board is now installed in a plastic case, together with 4 x AA NiMH cells which provide near enough 5V to power both...

Six months ago I bought an old Kenwood TH-205 on eBay for spares or repair. I got it working, managed to find a new replacement NiCad batte...

It was a fine sunny morning. I remembered - having worked a couple of activators yesterday - that it was the Summits On The Air (SOTA) Activ...

It has been a glorious day today. After lunch I set off for Tallentire Hill armed with the TH-205E and three antennas: a 2m telescopic quar...

The TH-205E transceiver was finally restored to full working order yesterday. After some thought I finally decided how to fit the 3A diode t...

The diode I ordered yesterday to do the mod on the TH-205E came this morning, but it is a bit big. It looks as if I might have to use a thi...

My hopes that the TH-205E I bought on eBay would be fully operational after connecting the fully-charged new battery were dashed last night ...

Sometimes you just get lucky. After I repaired the TH-205E I recently won on eBay, I was looking around for ideas on what to do about the d...

It's probably a character weakness, but I have always had a tendency to push my luck a bit too far and end up regretting it. That though...

Whilst buying on eBay can sometimes result in a piece of junk , it can also produce the occasional lucky find. The radio pictured on the rig...