Pattern and Match

So you want to put up a wire yagi for the low bands. All you need is two sufficiently tall structures -- trees or towers -- tie a catenary r...

For those who have followed this blog for the past two years may recall that my primary objective in building my station is contests. HF DXi...

I did not make a substantial effort in the IARU contest this weekend. Not only do I not enjoy warm weather contesting -- too many opportunit...

An insurance contact is when you work a DXpedition a second time on a band-mode. This is generally frowned upon since it takes time away fro...

Six months ago over the Christmas holiday I downloaded WSJT-X to give FT8 a try. Since quite a lot of CW and SSB activity has moved to this...

I find it unconscionable that a company can ignore a serious design flaw in a widely used product that has been in production for decades. N...

You have undoubtedly read about or seen the raccoon that recently climbed a 25-storey building in Minnesota. To a human it seems kind of cu...

Adjusting tower guys is a methodical process. You start at the bottom and work your way to top, guy set by guy set, making the tower vertica...

There is rarely any reason to bother with burial of coax and other cable in most ham stations. Towers (if any) and other supports are of mod...