Pattern and Match

In the previous article I mentioned that I attended the Contest Dinner at the Hamvention last week. One of the things they do is to find th...

I had no plan to travel to Ohio for first Hamvention since the pandemic. I'm busy and I had my doubts whether it was yet advisable to pa...

Last winter I mentioned that the prop pitch motor for the upper yagis of the 15 and 20 meter stacks would not turn when the temperature was...

Amateur radio in 2022 is quite different from how it was decades ago. Many of us don't notice some of the important changes because they...

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 ...