Pattern and Match

I have a long to-do list for my station. It reflects a lot of ambition. However, my actual pace of work is at a lower rate. Amateur radio is...

What do we owe our fellow hams? When we have different ideas about who to have a QSO with, whose wishes should prevail? Should one ham's...

I am accustomed to sharing the towers with wasps early in the fall. Their job is done and most are doing little more than waiting to die. Fo...

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...