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Beverage receive antennas are very susceptible to lightning. They are long wires that at close to the ground and grounded at both ends. Whil...

While working on a few antenna projects recently I cut a lot of ⅝", ½" and ⅜" aluminum tubes. This is a subject I touched on ...

Widely spaced blog articles are due to me being very busy and a lot of partially complete projects that are not ready to become blog materia...

Many owners of HF yagis are familiar with the "singing" phenomenon. When the wind blows the elements vibrate. Not always, since it...

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 ...