Hi again ham radio friends! It's been a while since my last update, but I have a good excuse — I had to have emergency surgery to remove my appendix. I tell my publishing friends […]

With our rental house sold and signed away, I felt the need for some new hardware for the shack. I had quit looking at bugs and cw hardware on eBay for the past few months, […]

It's been a while since my last update, but I've been keeping busy. My Heathkit HW-16 and I have been prowling the 80-meter band after midnight lately. I'm still using my old beat-up Speed-X bug. […]

Tonight was the first club meeting of the year, and what a great meeting it was! We had great attendance and real enthusiasm from everyone. A great way to start the year. We had election […]

Yes, it was a glorious 24 hours! I first tuned in on the CW portion of 80 meters about 0030Z (7:30 pm local time), and the band was packed with signals, all the way from […]

… and what a great Straight Key Night it was! I turned on the rig about a half-hour into SKN's start (0000 Zulu), and boy howdy was 80 meters crowded. There were CW stations from […]

I've been a longtime listener to a number of 75-meter roundtables. My days of listening in on 3898 go back more than 25 years, back to my SWL days. I still listen to 3898 every […]

The derelict E.F. Johnson Speed-X bug I wrote about last has been performing well as I've been using it for a couple of QSOs. After the first contact, I adjusted the dot contact screw for […]

I have had a rather derelict E.F. Johnson Speed-X bug rattling around my SUV for several weeks now. It arrived by mail and was a cheapie I picked up from eBay. It looked like it […]

I'm listening to the 11-meter band right now to a group of CB'ers talking about ham radio. The one guy whose closest to me is telling his friends what a great antenna his Moonraker is […]