Construction projects


The ham clock made from a Raspberry Pi.
Most of these projects use either the Raspberry Pi or Arduino.
The Pi is a small Linux computer and the Arduino is a programmable controller.


The ham clock manual.
How to construct a ham clock

K3NG rotator controller made from Raspberry pi.

The original controller broke down so I turned it into a K3NG controller
The innards of the controller

Rotator circuit diagram

The rotator manual.

The SVEN Nixie clock.
Nixie is an ancient vacuume valve display used before LCD was invented.


Old construction manual

Sven schematic

Sven manual

Sven manual Rev 2-1

My portable hot spot.

This Raspberry Pi hot spot is mostly running on selected talk groups: Brandmeister, TGIF and VKDMR.
It runs APRS through Brandmeister.

The hot spot operates through my phone in hot spot mode. APRS and DMR is achieved using an Anytone 878.


My shack Rasperry Pi hot spot.


The Raspberry Pi that drives FT8 and WSPR into the Xeigu G90 HF radio.

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The Fritzing PCB and circuit that drives the PLL. (you need Fritzing)

Download Fritzing.

The 70cm repeater with echolink and fan drive.

A Raspberry Pi drives the controls and Echolink, an Arduino operates the cooling fans.


The internal wiring of the repeater


The Pi repeater control module manual

The Shure 55SH series 2 'Elvis' microphone.

This microphone originally had a dynamic insert that picked up the DMR and caused 'motorboating' on the audio.
I replaced that with a Jaycar electret microphone amplifier.
The big golden ring in the background is a 1928 speaker I found in a farmer's shed.