Pattern and Match

Repairing yagis on the tower is not always easy. The parts you need to access may be far out of reach. With some well thought out choreograp...

I have no antennas for the WARC bands: 30, 17 and 12 meters. They've been low priority since I began building this station in 2016 becau...

One of the measures of maturity is the ability to delay gratification. When a small child wants something, he or she typically wants it imme...

I don't really like the CQ WPX contest and I've said so several times in this blog going back many years . It was one of my favouri...

It may seem surprising that I have an MFJ antenna. The story behind it is interesting. While chatting with a friend last year I mentioned th...

On recent tower jobs I ran into several common mistakes by inexperienced ground crew. No matter how thoughtful, diligent or careful, novices...

It is interesting to me that in speaking of a beginning to the annual 6 meter season is less anachronistic than it ought to be. After all, h...