The Top Band The 160M Band is a bit of a holy grail in Ham Radio because it’s such a honkin’ huge antenna! Hardly anyone has the space needed to set one up. There’s lots of ‘compromised’ antenna v...

Introductory Rant Digital over Analogue in (((Current Year))) ham radio is an absolute dog’s breakfast of hodge-podgery! I remember watching The Tech Prepper a few years ago in his video entitled ...

The Concept Ham Radio Field Day can be a rip roarin’ good time for individuals and clubs alike. If you are operating as a club or with more than one station, you need to have equipment that will k...

The biggest problem with the DX Commander Expedition mast is that the top section sits pretty much flush when collapsed, making it awkward and a real pain to grab. This simple hack fixes this probl...

A portable antenna that is taking the world by storm is the POTA PERformer designed by Greg, KJ6ER. You can contact Greg directly and he will provide you with PDF files of his build. My version is ...

Loop antennas are lot of fun to play around with and have lots of advantages for Ham Radio. I made a 20M Delta Loop a couple of years ago. Recently, I built a new 4:1 hybrid balun for it. Advant...

UPDATE After more field testing, this build was an abject failure! The toggle switch is too close together and I believe the wires capacitively couple together. You can’t adjust the wire legs inde...

I generally hate working with Coax because the braid is a royal pain to deal with. It’s finicky and cumbersome. However, I learned a snazzy way of dealing with it that has made my life 17% better. ...

UPDATE I had several previous posts on this antenna. I’m consolidating them all into this one post to keep things organized and accurate. A truly awesome QTH or portable antenna is the Off-Ce...

Without question, the NanoVNA is the MVP of ham radio. There is no other tool so versatile and feature rich for the price. Here’s how to upgrade the firmware to the latest version on Linux. It appe...