New Radio Initiative Website

A bi-lingual website is now available for the New Radio Initiative, a group who are working to develop a new operating system for amateur radio equipment. 

The site, available in German as well as English, gives an outline specification for handheld, mobile and base station rigs of the future.

“Looking forward to receive a radio where I can program the modulation (FPGA) and add “apps” for comfortable operation.”

— Michael Kastelic OE1MCU, Vice President ÖVSV

New Radio Initiative - http://www.newradio.eu/

Radiomart.co.uk - New Classifieds Site

UK Radio Amateur Jon Byrne, 2E0RFU has launched a new independent Radio Classifieds site with the aim of providing a simple and secure place to buy and sell amateur radio equipment between UK radio amateurs and shortwave listeners.

As a launch event all sign ups until the 3rd September will be entered into a draw for a number of prizes, including a UV-5R.

As a non commercial independent site radiomart.co.uk is also open to independent suppliers.
More inforamtion - http://radiomart.co.uk

WSPR station with RF Board and Raspberry Pi

A campaign has been launched on Kickstarter for an RF breakout board for the Raspberry Pi.

The Raspberry Pi has been a huge hit with radio amateurs and other hobbyists since its launch in 2012.

Every Raspberry Pi has a programmable clock generator on board which can be used as a frequency synthesiser up to 250MHz with a logic level output capable of delivering 10mW without any amplification.

The Kickstarter kit provides a breakout board that brings the Raspberry Pi clock generator out to a BNC socket with a prototyping area for your own circuits. Building a QRP WSPR beacon is as simple as adding a low pass filter and downloading the Raspberry Pi WSPR software.

Kickstarter Project - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2001938575/rf-breakout-kit-for-the-raspberry-pi