Translation ear buds

On recent C5 trip I travelled via Morocco and despite speaking a bit of Arabic thought it might be interesting to try a pair of the new translation earbuds as I had a long stop over. The ones I used get your own ones here

They also have nmber of other functions, the most useful as flying was noise cancellation but they act as mormal blue tooth ear buds too. The ones that I was recommended to try were these but they were not available when I looked.

Travelling with Radio Kit, add a GPS luggage tag

First time had to use it in 100's of flights but definitely worth doing. I added a GPS tag to my bag that got checked. Was one of these.

New Electric Screwdriver

I had to open a few boxes and adjust jubilee clips and 1000 other tasks... rather than use mix of screwdrivers I treated my self to one of these. https://amzn.to/4bUhd7X

Cheap enough and had enough attachments and good enough to leave in the bag.

Sadly no operations from C5

 The licence was not granted, in time.

Solar Powered from C5 in March 2026

 

 

Back to C5 again next March 2026 and will be low power and solar powered.

 

Not got call sign just yet but will be C5/M1KTA or ??? 

 

Power will be off solar panel, 100W 12V Foldable Solar Panel Kit Monocrystalline with Solar Controller (2 USB Output) for 12V Battery Charging plan on getting one or two motor bike batteries or one bigger car one (depends what available) and will charge it. will run the radio off it.

 

Radio will be KX3 backup Ashan's Raspberry Pi SDR radio, Antennas, various verticals right by the sea.

Locator should be:

Maidenhead Gridsquare: IK23gl

CQ Zone: 35

ITU Zone: 46

Whilst there used this power bank to recharge phone etc.

I had taken this anti mosquito spray with me too.

https://amzn.to/4v2u28T

Finally had time to build the VM I wanted.... To use the 2418 to make PCB

 

Analogue Display Digital VFO

Following the original by JF3HZB (PW October 2022 p56) I have bodged mine sort of based on the original

https://github.com/tjlab-jf3hzb/Digital_VFO_with_analog_dial

https://tj-lab.org/2019/02/17/vfo5/

I will use for bench signal source and an older direct conversion radio setup I have.

The ESP32 I used seems to be a bit different.

The upload speed 115200, 240MHz, 40Mh flash, 4MB flash

Anyway programmed it.

I used a 2" rotary controller as per the PW article. Ruler and JLCPCB squeaky duck for size comparison.