Pattern and Match

When I first built this station I put up a few multi-band yagis: TH6, TH7, Explorer 14. When operating SO2R in contests I could not share th...

The bad spring weather continues. This has been the wettest early spring I can remember for perhaps 10 years. At least it has warmed up, alt...

Measuring stray reactance -- L and C -- can be difficult because the values are typically quite small. Yet that is a requirement I've de...

It was with some surprise that an article I wrote a few months ago went "viral". Well, viral as far as it can be within a limited...

I did not operate the WPX SSB contest . I don't particularly like it and I said why in an article many years ago. There is no reason to...

Over the decades my shack walls have always been bare. The one exception was when I was a new ham (1970s!). At that time I pinned a few trea...

DXpeditions to rare entities can bring out the worst in people. The pile ups are unruly, DQRM is rampant and every complaint imaginable is ...

I am designing several small mono-band yagis to replace the TH6. The venerable tri-band yagi is fixed south at an intermediate height (~25 m...

Once again we did M/2 from the station of my friend Vlad VE3JM. His station is similar in size to mine and he does extremely well from there...