PA0FRI SK
This weekend i heard the sad news that Frits PA0FRI passed away at the age of 83 years.
I knew Frits from early nineties and remember him as a real friendly ham operator willing to help many hams not only in the Netherlands but all over the world.
His famous website www.pa0fri.com with a lot of Frits’ knowledge will stay online as promised by his son.
Frits Geerligs PA0FRI is silent key. r.i.p.
This transceiver can be build with a DRA818 and ESP32 as basis.
Locater via build in gps
Contains preprogrammed repeater frequencies for the Netherlands
Configuration can be done via build in webserver, a quite easy and flexible way to change settings or parameters.
The aprs beacon works via rf and if availble wifi as well.
Nice and easy kit to build, see www.pi4raz.nl where you also can order the 2 pcb’s.
Touch display and DRA818 can be ordered at several Chinese webshops or ebay.
Last year i sold my nanovna and replaced it with this nanovna-F v2
This unit has a solid enclosure, very clear screen and range till 3GHz.
A very nice pice of equipment for an affordable price.
A lot of information is already written and on Youtube as well.
Basically this radio is used for ham operation on vhf and uhf (145 / 430 ) mhz with the am airband for rx only,
As many of you will know some guys made new firmware for this radio available to expand the frequency and to add usb mode.
After a firmware flash this radio is able to tx and rx from 18 mhz till 1.3 ghz…..
My advise is not to transmit outside both vhf/uhf band since it will produce many harmonics!
But for the price ( i have two, lowest price 16 euro incl shipping to europe) you will have a very nice wideband receiver.
Check the firmware on github:
Some pictures of the radio after firmware flash:
Dear radio friends, Do you remember the famous “Coffee warmer”, Sommerkamp TS 788 DX?
The Sommerkamp friends, a group on Facebook, like to honor, the entrepreneur behind the great brand of Sommerkamp radio.
Mr. Wolfgang Sommerkamp, born on September 11th in Dortmund, Germany. HAM radio call DJ2YJ , EA8YS as well as other used calls. OM Wolfgang passed away in 2021, and during the Weekend September 8-10 2023, we like to invite all radio operators to the “Sommerkamp Memorial Activity”.
In the future, we like to dedicate every second weekend in September, to have such a radio event. So get your Sommerkamp radio equipment ready, regardless if amateur or 11 m enthusiast.
We like to meet on the following bands, 80 m, 40 m, 20 m, 15 m, 11 m, 10 m or 2 m. Of course you are welcome to use transverters with your equipment and activate … 4 m, be creative, join the fun.
Activity Frequencies
Please remember, this is not a contest. There is nothing to win, it is rather a friendly, get together on the airwaves. Communicate with one another, share what equipment you use, perhaps when you have purchased it … are you a longtime Sommerkamp radio owner or did you pick up the equipment just recently … perhaps inherited it … Your phantasy is the limit.
Please share the information with others, make them aware of our Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/224973084337664
Feel free to contact the organizers, emails are available over qrz.com
You have a picture from your activation - send it to Email or post it in the Sommerkamp Facebook Group.
