Real-World Amateur Radio

Over the past few weeks, a HB-based operator has been causing some difficulty for me when firing-up on OLIVIA mode at around 14.106MHz. Th...

N0UN runs a regularly-updated and often very interesting blog .  The other Day, N0UN, who is an avid DX-chaser with a station to match, is...

Lighting towers are often found for good prices on internet auction sites, and make for very good towers for single HF antennas or lighter V...

The latest pico balloon, launched on Australia Day, is drifting nicely out over the Pacific at the moment. The mylar party balloon carries...

Has amateur radio become so rubbish that it is now little better than the 'radio-ese' that beset CB? I think it has.  Every day, I...

Recently, I and a load of other WSPR users have become very fed-up with the constant interference of that mode by, principally, RTTY opera...

This week's seen a lot of activity on the new QRZ.com awards programme.  I've already spotted a number of operators with award badge...