Thursday, February 28, 2019

Early End to Contest Season

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Maintenance. There's a word to strike terror into the heart of any ham. Especially when it's needed at exactly the wrong time: the m...
Monday, February 25, 2019

20 Meter 3-element Reversible Wire Yagi

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Recently I was asked to design a reversible 3-element wire yagi. The constraints were a maximum height of 30' (9 meters) and inverted ve...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Dealing with Dits

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A few weeks ago I received a preview LCR (log check report) for the recent CQ WW CW contest. There is a dreadful commonality among my LCRs f...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

160 Meter 3-element Tower Yagi

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Last month I listed a few of the ideas I'm considering for a better and permanent 160 meter antenna. One of those is to tune my two big...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

2019: Year of the Yagi

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Waiting for spring It's that time of year to look ahead and make my plans for the 2019 station construction season. I've made a ...
Monday, January 28, 2019

Short Beverage Antenna for 160 Meters

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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...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

On Surviving a Solar Minimum Winter

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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 ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Bare Bones SO2R

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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...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Permanent 160 Meter Antennas Under Consideration

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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...