Pattern and Match

It's that time of year again: the end of one year and the start of the next. It's my cue to take a look back at the year that was an...

Ugly coax choke, but it worked To give you an idea of how effective a poorly made air core coax common mode choke can perform I'll...

For the first time I made use of a call history file in a contest this weekend. It was the North American QSO Party (NAQP) CW contest. To t...

During the ARRL 160 meter contest my Drake L7 kilowatt amplifier failed. It happened while I was checking email during an off period. There...

As I wrote several days ago an ice storm damaged my 80 meter vertical yagi . Weight of ice on the catenaries ropes supporting the parasitic...

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 ...