Pattern and Match

This is not the article I wanted to finish the year with. On December 30 we had an ice storm that deposited from ¼" to ½" ice on a...

Among the many projects simultaneously underway as 2019 draws to a close is the completion of my 15 meter and 20 meter stacked yagis . Desig...

FT8 keeps eating away at the bands, one ham at a time. Like the mythical universal solvent it cannot be contained: FT8 dissolves every cont...

The 3-element, 4-direction vertical yagi I recently completed is not a perfect antenna although it does perform very well. It has its pros ...

The weather broke for long enough for lowering the XM240 40 meter yagi from my Trylon tower. I previously noted that I lost the antenna dur...

Despite being at the bottom of the sunspot cycle the bands came alive this past weekend during what is arguably the biggest contest of the y...

From first models to final design to final antenna took three years. It isn't that I was so slow than it was relatively low priority t...