Pattern and Match

There is a limited ability to achieving mechanical leverage when you are working on a tower. You can only "push" against the tower...

This is what I call transition season. The 6 meter sporadic E season is effectively over and the fall tower and antenna season is a few week...

This will be a short article about a short subject: dealing with solar flares in a contest. The goal is to briefly describe the effects of ...

In the beginning, when we heard a rare DX station we would pick up the telephone and call our friends . They would get on the air and work t...

Standards are peculiar beasts. They typically come about from the collaboration of competitors, whether at their own behest, pressure from r...

I didn't operate in the IARU contest last weekend. However, my station was active with a guest in the operating chair: Vlad VE3TM. I di...

I repaired and reinstalled the common mode choke (balun) on the TH6 . As readers may recall, the PVC enclosure for the Balun Designs 1113s s...

There are many ways to design a multi-band antenna. Each has its good and bad points, and all have been discussed on this blog multiple time...