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OHIS to Icom IC-705

I have written about how to make a Simple OHIS Radio Adapter for Icom Radios before. But I’ve recently received a couple folks asking me: “How do I connect my Halibut Electronics Radio Pro to an Icom IC-705?” The problem is that the IC-705 works more like an Icom HT than an Icom HF or Mobile rig. Icom HTs (and… Read More »OHIS to Icom IC-705

The Split Future of HaliKey: MIDI and Serial

Halibut Electronics is proud to announce the re-release of the serial-port based HaliKey v1, renamed to HaliKey Serial to more clearly differentiate it from HaliKey MIDI. Click Here to buy HaliKey, both types. Both variations of HaliKey allow you to connect your morse code paddles, or PTT switch, to a computer for remote operation: Some software on your computer expects… Read More »The Split Future of HaliKey: MIDI and Serial

Audio Isolation Transformers

Everything you never realized you wanted to know about Audio Isolation Transformers. Full details: https://github.com/open-headset-interconnect-standard/collected-data/tree/main/Audio%20Transformers Summary: I had a customer ask about the frequency response of the OHIS hardware I make. “I, uhh… don’t know? I know what I designed it to, and it SOUNDS fine to me… But I’ve never measured it!” Ok, let’s do this thing. The most… Read More »Audio Isolation Transformers

Hamvention 2024

Hamvention 2024 is in the books! It was REALLY GOOD for Halibut Electronics. We sold out of Common Mode Current Choke Test Rig kits, Contesting Consoles, and Radio Pro adapters. (Granted, I brought a limited number of them.) Several folks ordered things that I’ll have to ship to them when I get home. More importantly, I met A TON of… Read More »Hamvention 2024

Mastodon and Fediverse

Recent events (around November 2022; I won’t cover it here, look it up yourself please) have a lot of people leaving Twitter and looking for an alternative. I (Mark and Halibut Electronics) have chosen Mastodon and the Fediverse as our new Social Media Platform of choice. This means I will no longer be posting on Twitter. If you’re interested in… Read More »Mastodon and Fediverse

Website is ALMOST ready!

We’re getting very close to launching the website. I’m writing this post before it launches, as much to test things as for any other reason. But…

CQ de Halibut Electronics

Setting up a new webpage. More will be here later. In the mean time, be good humans. 🙂 73 de N6MTS -Mark