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Folks I’ve made some modifications to the website’s menu which you might like to take a look at. The new pages added are here, here and here. Many thanks, Howard

Folks I have had some good news about CE certification and conformance testing. The R&TTE EN 301 783-1 testing has completed successfully, and EMC and safety are being carried out on Wednesday and Thursday this week. I received the first … Continue reading →

Folks, I’ve just returned from the manufacturer who is starting on the PCB assembly this morning. I hope to have the first units in the next few days assuming all goes well. I’m still awaiting indications from the conformance testing: … Continue reading →

Folks This evening I set up a 7″ quarter wave antenna on a baking tray on my balcony connected via 4m of RG-58 coax to a FUNcube Dongle Pro+. There’s a video of it picking up the FITSAT-1 satellite (launched … Continue reading →

Folks I put together a quick single-take video of the forthcoming FUNcube Dongle Pro + this evening here. Many thanks, Howard

Folks The new FUNcube Dongle Pro+ offers the following features and enhancements: o Full coverage of all amateur bands from 136kHz through HF, 6m, 2m, 4m, 2m, 1.25m, 70cm, 33cm, 23cm (150kHz-240MHz and 420MHz-1.9GHz, 70kHz-150kHz coverage through your software’s NCO … Continue reading →

Folks, I took some pics of the responses of the close-in 2m and 70cm SAW filter responses of the FCD Pro+ tonight, which I show here. Of course, you are still welcome to use the other external discrete LC filters … Continue reading →

Folks The first spin of the PCB for the FCD Pro+ I soldered manually, one part at a time, one side at a time. I used the hot air iron for the big chips, and manually soldered the discretes. Truth … Continue reading →

Folks While we await parts for the original FUNcube Dongle, as you may be aware we’ve taken the opportunity to build an updated version which also has many additional features and performance enhancements. I am pleased to announce that after … Continue reading →

Folks While we’ve been out of stock of the original FUNcube Dongle waiting for parts, a couple of months ago we decided to take the opportunity to take into account the feedback by many FCD users with a redesign we’re calling the FUNcube … Continue reading →