Monday, June 8, 2020 — Several days ago I was listening to the NCS of my Georgia CW net wrap things up for the night. I usually move from 80 to 75 meters and listen […]
Monday, May 25, 2020 This afternoon I enlisted the help of my son to help me repair my inverted vee that is the main HF antenna for Studio A. One leg of the antenna had […]
Saturday, May 23, 2020 FILTER YOUR ENTHUSIASM. While working to have some sort of audio filtering set to work with my Yaesu FT-817 — which lacks any kind of CW filter — I also took […]
I give up. I quit. For months I have been using a four port 12 VDC distribution block that uses the newfangled (in my shack they’re new, anyway) PowerPole connectors. And for months, I’ve struggled […]
Friday, May 15, 2020 SOLDERING IRON SHUFFLE. One of my recent eBay purchases was a 600 Hertz audio filter to use with my FT-817 QRP rig. You can find these kits for cheap on eBay […]
My first experience with a cubical quad antenna came long before I earned my Amateur Radio license in 1987. The year was 1970-something and my best friend and I were big CB radio fanatics. We […]
This afternoon I had a wild idea …. I have my Yaesu FT-817 rig here at Studio B, why not check out 40 meters and scare up a QRP contact?? I set up my tuner […]
Late springtime band conditions haven’t been too bad, at least for my 9 p.m. CW net. One of the regulars who lives in South Carolina did two nights this past week as NCS, and his […]
We’ve had springtime weather here the last couple of days, with promising weather in the immediate forecast. Its great for getting out in the yard, but awful weather for erecting antennas — the best performing […]
One of the problems with having a lot of radio stuff is storing said stuff safely. I recruited my son to descend to our basement to assemble some storage shelves when we discovered that an […]
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