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MICROCONTROLLERS IN AMATEUR RADIO

his month, we start with another project from Rodrigo Freire, PY2RAF (see Dec 2019 for the previous project). This is a great under-$10 project that uses only four items — almost any variety of Arduino board, an OLED display, a pair of resistors, and a few pieces of jumper wire ( and ). Rodrigo’s project is an on-air transmit and receive timer, counting how long you are transmitting or receiving a signal. It>, which now support many ICOM and Kenwood radios.

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