We are looking for a columnist to coordinate the bi-monthly “Member Profile” for the Radio-Active column ofThe Communicator. The task involves sending out a questionnaire to a prospective candidate and then creating a 500-1000 word story based on the answers, along with a couple of photos....
I took this picture to show you an example of some of the radio-related stuff on sale at the fest. Sitting on the table are some vintage HF receivers, big ‘ole capacitors, a meter of some kind, and some other stuff whose purpose is unknown to me. The man on the left is my fathe...
Two years ago, I made my first long distance trip with a portable HF station when I took my Xiegu G90 and an end fed half wave antenna on a flight to California to activate Yosemite National Park. For that trip, I placed the radio along with a LiFePO battery in a Pelican case along...
Just when I thought my bargain day was over I noticed something interesting. It looked like one of those typical 1940’s combination record player/radio combinations. I was attracted by the cabinet and front dial, both in pretty good condition. Upon further investigation I found that it was a...
Ham Radio Antenna:I know, I said the radio comes with an antenna and it does, but if you want to get the best transmit/receive range possible from your radio and hit those far away repeaters, a longer antenna is definitely in order. The little “rubber duck” is fine for local use ...
The Eyal Gal units are a complete RX system requiring just an IF radio, a local oscillator and an antenna to receive a signal. For transmit, things are a little more complicated. These units are a just an amplifier at 10Ghz, so we need to add a transmit mixer and some filtering to ...
‘hex beam’ basically a wet noodle on 80. Dean set me up with the wrong antenna and I was to sleepy to check. We also had just gone through a radio black out so I assumed the band was pretty bad. Anyway, what was truely amazing was the Elecraft KAT 500 matched into the wet ...