Friday, June 12, 2020 This evening I missed checking in to either my Kentucky or Georgia CW nets. My wife worked late and she was planning to go to the lake with her girlfriend for […]
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 I ran across this homebrew iambic paddle a week or so back while cleaning up the shack. It’s a nicely done clone of the FYO / Bencher BY-1 style key. The […]
Wednesday, June 10, 2020 Checked in tonight to the Kentucky CW Net. Ray, WB4ZDU was NCS. I heard an old friend of mine check-in, Fred in Louisa, Ky., so I figured what the hell, I’ll […]
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 […]
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