Pattern and Match

Everything interacts with everything. When you swing a hammer the moon jumps. The laws of physics tell us so. It's a matter of by how mu...

It takes a lot of EUV to light up the ionosphere's F-layer bring 50 MHz signals down to Earth at my geomagnetic latitude. That happened ...

Before I begin, this is not a article about politics or political opinions. It's about amateur radio. I am taking care to keep it on top...

I hate to admit it, but I have had a spectacular failure. Longtime readers may remember the prototype work I presented last year for all-in...

Recently I wrote about my perspective versus others on the slowness of FT8 . I would rather use the faster FT4 but since few bother I am stu...

I occasionally recap my contest experience to relate events and to discuss topics that may interest others and not just me. The 2022 running...

Let's roll the calendar back several thousand years, before humans developed civilizations and cities. The major preoccupation was survi...

As the temperature crept above freezing this week I made my first tower climb of 2022. It was to re-align the antennas (yagis for 6 and 40 m...

[ Note : I've been busy so I have no well-developed technical articles in the pipeline. Instead I am going to start February slow. Real ...

As I write this, the 2022 CQ WW 160 Meter contest is not over. But it's over for me, and has been since Saturday evening. The endless te...