Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Good Conditions

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The past week has been cycling between very good and very poor propagation conditions on the HF bands. The high solar flux (~150) is a plus ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Spring Checkup

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It took a while for spring to arrive in Ottawa. Yet it is now here and the snow is mostly gone. This gives me an opportunity to climb and in...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Improving the 2-element Connected-radial 80M Parasitic Vertical

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In my earlier article on a 2-element parasitic vertical array for 80 meters I made no attempt to optimize the design. That was put aside in...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Buying a Used Yagi: Hams Ripping Off Hams

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I described my research into choosing a tri-band yagi in a series of articles last year (2014). The antenna I eventually purchased was not...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Radial Topology Options: 2-element Parasitic Vertical Array for 80

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In this article I want to look further at radial topology of vertical arrays for the low bands. In an earlier article I looked at the impac...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

13 db

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In this past weekend's ARRL DX SSB contest I did something I have not done since returning to the air over two years ago: I entered a co...
Monday, March 2, 2015

CW Skimmers: The QRP Contester's Friend

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Having been a QRP contester for almost 2 years now I have concluded that this is a really good time in the hobby's history to be doing t...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Getting to 0% Error Rate: "Not In Log"

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Logging errors in contests can exact a steep penalty. Not only will the sponsor remove QSOs containing errors they also assess penalties. On...