Pattern and Match

This week the low bands were quite good. An extended period of quiet geomagnetic conditions lowered the noise and ionospheric attenuation. W...

My plans for a larger station continue. I have the tower , the transmission line , a few antennas and assorted components for building long...

Along with many DXers around the world I chased the VK9WA Willis Island DXpedition . The DXpedition is now history, and I logged several QSO...

Of all the articles on this blog by far the most popular are those for 40 meter antennas. In particular wire yagis and other simple antennas...

Keyers have been on my mind lately. Now that I am intending on operating less QRP I have to change my CW setup. For QRP it was quite simple:...

Following the CQ WW contest I made a few small changes to the 80 meter vertical . These should be sufficiently interesting to others to just...

In my previous article I mentioned that I barely got the second 40 meter inverted vee up installed in time for the CQ WW contest this past w...

This past weekend was the 2015 edition of the CQ WW SSB contest. Like last year I entered in the QRP category (5 watts), single op, no assis...

The L network at the feed point of my new 80 meter vertical is now complete. The rat's nest of components and wires lying at the base o...

Now that some other tasks are out of the way and the weather is sufficiently cool that traffic has declined in my backyard, it is time to ge...