News, Updates and Other Minutiae
November 2024 Phillipe F6ETI has done some serious testing on the Noise Canceller and shown it works up to 72MHz and is usable with some loss at 145MHz. Links to his website with photo's, video's and description of the testing on the Noise Canceller page.
September 2023 Long time between drinks, but not much happening on the tech front at the moment. Added another couple of rants to the rant page.
January 2023 Updated the AD9833 VFO code to use a 12F1840.
December 2022 Added rant about todays useless (internet) search engines.
November 2022 NEW Project An AD9833 Based Simple VFO. FT101ZD VFO project updated.
October 2022 A replacement internal DDS VFO for FT101Z/ZD rigs. Because the worlds postage system has gone totally bonkers and it is not possible to send a small pcb anywhere except at extreme cost, I am slowly making available the option to purchase pcb's from Pcbway. First up is the Simple DDS VFO 2017 project pcb. Others will be added over time. Noise Canceller kits available again- see Noise Canceller page.
Privacy Policy uploaded. GPDR and all that stuff In accordance with various bits of legislation around the world, either currently in force, about to come into force or proposed, you will now find that annoying "We use cookies" notice at the top of this website. The full Privacy Policy is available at the Privacy Policy link in the footer at the bottom of the page. (If you don't know what GPDR is, Google it. Real scary shit for ANYBODY with a web presence.)
FT757 Battery Replacement
Replacing the battery in an FT757 in pictures
While hunting around the internet, I came across a document in French by Denis F4ANN about replacing the battery in an FT757 rig.
While maybe not homebrew strictly speaking, we are taking something apart, doing some soldering and putting it back together again (OK, technically it is 'repair work'). As I have an FT757 sitting on the shelf awaiting it's turn on the bench, I decided to translate it into English and put it into the 'information depository' for later. I also asked Denis's permission to put it on my website, which he agreed to. Rather than write it up as a web page, it is available to download as a pdf below. I figure others may want to store a copy locally rather than having to keep refering to a website they may forget where they saw it. One thing Denis did, was to replace the original battery:-
with this type:-
He also moved it to a more convenient location, should it ever need replacing again. This information may also be useful to anybody disassembling an FT757 for other repairs. Download the PDF file here (you will need to right click and "save link as" or what ever is required by your browser): FT757 Battery Replacement
