Almaty, Kazakhstan / Amateur radio
UN7GUN
OPERATOR / UN7GUN
Iurii Potekhin
HF, VHF/UHF and digital modes. Building antennas, setting up the station and testing things on the air.
My QRZ profile
ICOM IC-705 / STATION 0101 / Station
Radios and antennas.
The equipment I use for contacts and experiments.
Icom IC-705
Digital modes, listening and antenna experiments.
Yaesu FTM-150
Local VHF/UHF contacts.
Hytera HM655 U1
Digital voice contacts.
Yaesu FT-70D
A portable radio.
02 / Propagation
Before calling CQ.
Solar data and HF band conditions from HAMQSL.
A quick look at solar activity before turning on the radio. These are general conditions, not a local forecast for Almaty.
About the dataREADING THE PANEL
- SFISolar flux
- One indicator of solar activity.
- A / KA / K indices
- A view of geomagnetic activity.
- HFHF conditions
- Day and night estimates for groups of bands.
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HAMQSL solar panel
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Solar data: Paul L. Herrman, N0NBH · HAMQSL.com
03 / Logbook
Notes from the air.
The UN7GUN station logbook on QRZ.com.
View up-to-date contacts and confirmations from my QRZ logbook.
Open QRZ logbookDX Dashboard on Club LogUN7GUN profileQRZ / LOGBOOK
Recent contacts
and confirmations.
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04 / QSL
My QSL card.
Almaty, Kazakhstan. MN83KF · CQ 17 · ITU 31.
ALMATY / KAZAKHSTAN
Good Radio.
Good People.
The artwork of my QSL card, from Almaty, Kazakhstan.
A window dipole and a metal façade
The full article is currently available in Russian.
A dipole outside the window
For my current experiments on 144 MHz, I use a vertical dipole mounted outside the window.
The next task is fitting a 28 MHz dipole at or outside the window. Space is limited, so I am considering different layouts and ways to bend the elements. The final design has not been chosen yet.
IC-705, Mac and FT8
I am connecting my Icom IC-705 to a Mac for WSJT-X. The focus is radio control, USB audio and testing reception and transmission.
Fldigi is a separate topic: I am getting familiar with the program and its settings. These are working notes, not a finished setup guide.
Less loss in the cable
I have ordered a replacement for the thin feedline: 9 metres of 50-ohm HANSEN LCF 1/2″ with two fitted N-female connectors.
The plan uses RG142 tails at both ends: 20 cm by the radio and 2.5 m through the window on the antenna side, with ferrite and a cable loop. The allowance for the turns still needs checking during assembly.
Measurements and a comparison with the old feedline come after assembly. This is the planned configuration, not a set of measured results.
An SSTV postcard from the ISS
During an ISS radio pass, I received an SSTV transmission with a Yaesu FT-70D handheld radio.
I captured the SSTV signal from the speaker and decoded it into an image using an app. The result was an ISS postcard for World Space Week 2025.
06 / Video
Video from the station.
Personal radio videos by UN7GUN.
Personal recordings about radio. All videos are available on my YouTube channel.
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