Real-World Amateur Radio

For a long time, I've been looking out for a decent vacuum capacitor to reliably tune my 20m magnetic loop antenna. At long last, and ...

Magnetic loops are quite well known in the ham world.  It's just that they aren't all that well-used. This is very odd, because ov...

This winter's surprise has been the finding, mediated by objective WSPR tests, that my simple equipment wire, 80m inverted L, is putting...

It's in some sense satisfying to see more readers hitting this blog about the time of Radcom 's arrival in the post each month.  Per...

Over the past couple of weeks, I've started being active on 80m for the winter time.  Using just a simple inverted L with two elevated r...

Being a girl, my daughter likes talking.  She was lucky enough to have a brief chat with a girlie expedition to Greenland a few weeks ago, a...

Hat Tip : K7EK and 4x4 Ham I dislike unnecessary levels of power.  I committed years ago to never using an amplifier and to always ai...