The first time I did the ham radio thing was back in the stone age when I was a kid, not even a teenager yet. There are two things I continue to remember about that time as WN4DXX / WB4DXX. Number one: How absolutely shoulder-ripping heavy an EF Johnson Valiant transmitter was. Number two: How … Read more
I am and have been, since I was a child, a “what if” person. An Experimenter. A “what can I do to improve xyz?”. Part of that nature led me to a Knight Kit regenerative shortwave radio and then a chance meeting with a patient of my dad’s (he was an eye doctor) who asked … Read more
Hello to all of you who may be reading this. This article is for both those of you new to the amateur radio world as well as as everyone else. What I am discussing today are those newer SO-239 female connectors that are only cut in four places, once every 90 degrees. They are v-e-r-y … Read more
Hi folks, I bought a Palstar remote for my wonderful HF-Auto auto tuner. This will allow me to move the tuner of of my ‘shack’ to the other side of the QTH and downstairs. The open-wire feedline will enter at that point, which just so happens to be an odd 1/8 wavelength at 80 meters. … Read more
When I decided that I was going to put up a center-fed-with-open-wire line wire antenna for my second go at Amateur Radio after a multi-decade absence, I did the usual. Yes, probably what you have done. Some GoogleFu, and lots of reading of various “Oh yeah bro, THIS is the way you should put up … Read more