Pattern and Match

In January I lost one of my oldest friends, Brian VE3CRG. His passing was not unexpected since his medical challenges were accumulating and...

Followers of this blog may have noticed that I confess my ignorance about circuit design, and especially solid state circuits. I understand ...

With the CQ 160 meter contest coming up this weekend I thought it worth a brief article on the importance of receive antennas. That is, ant...

SO2R is hard and 2BSIQ is harder. When I say hard, I mean hard to do well ; anybody can dabble, but dabbling won't boost your score b...

There are good reasons why few hams have big stations. It is easy to think of a few: expense, effort, amount of land, expertise, conflicting...

Last year I stopped doing end of year retrospectives. They're of value to me though perhaps not to others. Since early in my blogging it...

When the time care to redeploy the 160 meter antenna for the winter season, there were a few improvements. These are mechanical changes tha...