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...

This afternoon I went for a stroll up Ling Fell, LDW-205. It was a fine afternoon and I wanted a bit of exercise. I took the VX-8GR so I cou...

For Easter Sunday, Bassenthwaite Rotary Club of which fellow WOTA enthusiast Phil M0AYB is a member put on, in aid of charity, a Felltop Ca...

I discovered some free radio memory management software this morning. Called CHIRP, which is presumably an acronym that ends with "Rad...

Yesterday I was out hiking round the back of Skiddaw in Wainwright's Northern Fells to activate Great Sca Fell (LDW-114) and Brae Fell (...

A few weeks ago I did an analysis of the audio levels of different APRS radios and lamented the low level of the audio transmitted by the Y...

Yesterday was one of those clear, blue, sunny, still, cold days that make you think it would be a criminal waste to stay inside. I decided t...

One problem I have noticed with the PIC TNC I recently built is that it is less tolerant of different packet signals than any of my radios....

Following a tip from the VX-8R Yahoo group I ordered a high capacity 2000mAh FNB-102Li battery for my VX-8GR from a dealer in Spain that wa...

I'm finding it hard to love the new Kenwood TH-D72. Despite the fact that it has a more sensitive GPS, a proper TNC that you can interfa...

I finally solved the problem with the cable I was trying to make to interface my VX-8GR with the computer, as described in my last post . As...

I have spent a frustrating couple of hours trying to make a PC cable to communicate with the VX-8GR. In the VX-8 Yahoo group it was stated t...

My long awaited package from Martin Lynch was finally delivered by UPS on Saturday afternoon and as one reader correctly guessed, it was a ...

Cumbria is famous as the county of the English Lake District but it has more to offer than mountain walks. I don't agree with Alfred Wai...

As regular readers may recall, I have a pathological hatred of SMA connectors when used as antenna connectors for hand-held radios, which ha...

Steve WG0AT, Rich, AC7MA and Guy, N7UN recently returned from their expedition to activate Huron Peak in the Sawatch Range in Colorado, USA,...

As regular readers will have realized from my previous post, I have been on holiday in Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. I won't bo...

A week ago I received a Yaesu VX-8GR VHF/UHF APRS hand held transceiver with GPS . The transceiver performs as expected except in one extrem...

A recent addition to the G4ILO shack is a new Yaesu VX-8G hand held transceiver. In case you are thinking that I need professional help over...

Rinse, PD2RPS, dropped me a note to alert me to the fact that Yaesu has introduced an updated version of the VX-8R (US version of the VX-8E)...