Pattern and Match

One of the many projects I did not get done in 2018 was putting up more receive antennas for the low bands. The delay is due to its relative...

VE3 winters are long and cold. This far north that is often true of the HF bands as well. Although my geographical latitude is not all that ...

Single-op two-radios (SO2R) must almost seem perverse to non-contesters. At least that's my experience when the subject comes up in conv...

When you have a tall tower it is quite easy to put up a high performance wire antenna for the low bands. My 160 meter antenna is a good exa...

I am reaching the end of a long delayed project to rewire all the coax and control cables coming into the house and shack. One task was to d...

My station building plan for 2018 was very ambitious. Too ambitious, as it turns out, so I had to walk back my expectations and prioritize ...

Anyone who works on high power amplifiers and antenna matching networks know that suitable capacitors can be expensive. They must be stable,...

Not enough hams understand, appreciate or recognize high quality tools and hardware. I have been handed sockets that shatter when torquing a...

I have a decent antenna for 6 meters, 200 watts and WSJT-X . I used WSJT-X extensively during this past summer sporadic E season with great...

Deep in my pool of partially finished blog articles is one about how one goes about calculating the guying requirements for tower and antenn...