Pattern and Match

I often hear hams expressing impatience with the current state of propagation. There are few or no sunspots and the cycle minimum drags on a...

There are many feed systems used in yagis over the years. Gamma matches are not as common as they once were. More typical are beta matches a...

Since I began planning this station, long before I went property hunting, I opportunistically purchased large items I'd need. One of the...

For the past few weeks I found myself rationalizing the puzzling behaviour of my 175 meter long northeast Beverage (my only receive antenna...

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...