Pattern and Match

Prop pitch motors make excellent rotators for the very largest antennas and rotating towers. The DC motor is powerful and the gearbox has ex...

I've dug trenches to bury a many long runs of cable. It isn't an easy job so I always add extra cable for future expansion. Since p...

While I ever so slowly ease back into spring tower and antenna work, the technical articles are slow in coming. They will return! But for no...

I have an admission to make. Although I love CW, use it a lot (starting in 1972!) and I can comfortably operate at high speed in a CW contes...

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...