I was thinking about building an ultralight dipole based on a BNC connector for portable operations with the goal of leaving it in a go bag of sorts. I made it for the ever versatile 30M band, eyei...

SENSIBLE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS PROTOCOLS When I first became interested in Ham Radio, it was primarily from a preparedness perspective. “What happens if there is no internet or cellphones?” Thi...

Oktoberfist! I had the notion for a fun fall morse code challenge that I call Oktoberfist! 10, 10 contact CW Activations (POTA) in October 10 watts or less 10MHz (30m Band) 10WPM or more...

I’m a little late to the LoRa (Long Range) game. Frank, VE5BBB, got some mesh radios and showed me. I was hooked on the idea immediately and ordered some cheapies from Amazon. What a riot it’s been...

I had previously built a QRP EFHW but I decided to rebuild it with a dedicated radiator. I tried to copy the design philosophy from the Chameleon CHA LEFS FEATHER EFHW. The Build I reused two o...

I’m still enthralled with the Performer template design: 1 radiator and 2 elevated (tuned) radials. For this build, I decided to combine the Performer and the Rybakov to produce The Performakov! T...

Spurred on by my Tri-Link antenna design and the tuned, elevated ground radial concept, I thought about a 40M NVIS version. I had been thinking about this for while and when got to looking at the o...

“It’s a great antenna!” “That won’t work!” “That’s wrong!” “I make all these contacts!” “I’m really getting out there!” “If it works, it works!” We’ve all heard these things and said these things....

I decided to make a Vertical Tri-Band antenna using my snazzy antenna links. This vertical has two raised & tuned ground radials. It’s basically a ripoff of the KJ6ER POTA PERformer antenna but...

I came across an even better approach to One Time Pad Encryption: Diana. This system uses letters instead of numbers and makes use of a “speed square” to do the encrypting. You can check out the f...