Pattern and Match

As the summer sporadic E season winds down there are several items to reflect upon. I'll have more to say about the season in my usual e...

Things break. For most hams making repairs to antennas is not too big a deal since most antennas are of modest size or made of wires. Perhap...

I don't like summer contests. Focussing on the radios is difficult when the weather is so nice. Winter is more conducive to spending lon...

It is very difficult to keep water out of the gearbox of a prop pitch motor that is mounted upside down. I have one of those and one that i...

When you buy a new, expensive HF transceiver you will invariably find that they include a small plastic bag containing a variety of connecto...

We have comfort zones. You can easily recognize yours when you venture outside its boundaries. It can happen by accident or by design. It...

The summer solstice is the peak of the sporadic E season. However, that is a probability, not a certainty. We don't have any reliable mo...