That 14 years to the day, when the world came to a stop on 9/11/01 that I see this on my windows sidebar: May we never forget…..
Tag: band conditions
Field Day 2015
What is field day? Well, I will let the ARRL or the National Association for Amateur Radio explain it: ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. On the fourth weekend of June of each year, more than 35,000 radio amateurs gather with their clubs, groups
Video: Using my Cobra UltraLite Senior Antenna on 160 Meters
Here is the new video about the 160 performance on the Cobra UltraLite Senior Antenna.
More crappy band conditions
Here’s the video: I installed the solar conditions widget thing at the top of the blog. Believe me, that thing is right on the money. It is as bad as it says. Hopefully things will improve tomorrow.
Video: Why you have to run an amplifier on 75 meters in the summer
I love 75 meters, I have been using it since I got my general class license in 2000. But, the summer months; it is quite rough and without an amp, at night, it is almost impossible to use on voice. (I bet it’s the same with CW too…) Here’s the video to explain: Unfortunately, I
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20 Meters is wide open tonight!
Here’ a video of my station on PSK31: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHzywS_R4E
20 meters is terrible today
I’m dictating this from my cell phone, so if it comes out looking a little funny that’s why. As you can see from the photo captured above, 20 meters is not in good shape I’m running psk31 and it just is not doing too good. I worked two stations so far, probably about 150 miles