With tree blocking ladder truck access, fire department executes rope and harness retrieval.
An 80-year-old Edgartown man was rescued Monday morning by the Edgartown Fire Department from a ham radio tower in his yard.
William Welch, an electrician and avid amateur radio operator, got his sneaker caught atop a 20-foot-tall backyard antenna after he scaled the structure to secure it ahead of the impending nor’easter, his wife Betty told The Times.
Firefighters were dispatched at around 10:45 am to 7 Welch’s Way for a report of a man trapped on a tower…..READ MORE
Equipment
Yaesu Rotor Controller Az. Insert
CQmaps – Professional Maps for Amateur Radio, is extremely happy to offer the Amateur Radio community a truly helpful station aid for your Yaesu... Read more
Yaesu FT DX 3000
The Yaesu FT DX 3000 – Building on the YAESU FT DX Heritage The FT DX 3000 is member of the long line of top performing YAESU FT DX Series of tr... Read more
TAJFUN 1000 50 MHz – 1KW
Description TAJFUN 1000 is small, lightweight but robus LDMOS Power Amplifier Freqency Coverage: 50 MHz Operating Mode: FM, CW, SSB, DIG... Read more
Airspy HF+ (Coming soon)
Airspy HF+ The Software Defined Radio revolution brought great flexibility in VHF and UHF reception. Today we offer the best wide band receivers which... Read more
Quick Charge Soldering Iron Kit – Boxed (#7700)
Quick Charge Soldering Iron Kit – Boxed (#7700) 7700 Series Soldering Irons Our best seller! The Quick Charge is world’s number one rechargeable... Read more
SDRplay announces the RSP2
The RSP2 is our new enhanced version of the popular RSP1 which provides three software selectable antenna inputs, & new stability and clocking fea... Read more
Antenna
OMNI-TILT™ Vertical Antenna Tilt Bases DXE-OMNITILT-2P
DX Engineering OMNI-TILT™ Vertical Antenna Tilt Bases are a completely new design that incorporates features that make this Tilt Base a ‘must ha... Read more
Jim W6LG Uses A Short Dipole To Demonstrate How A Dipole Functions
Jim makes and then shows his tunable half wavelength dipole antenna. Using an antenna analyzer, Jim finds the resonant frequency and the lowest SWR do... Read more
JK Antennas JK65 6 Meter Yagi
6 Meter Yagi Want to be heard on 6? JK Antennas JK65 6-Meter Yagi Antennas give you tremendous VHF performance with very high gain on a... Read more
Vari-Ten Wire Antenna Tensioners
Our wire antenna tensioner is a high quality variable tensioning device that absorbs the shock on amateur radio antennas when the support trees sway i... Read more
144 MHz Halo Antenna
Construction and Analysis of a Low Cost Omnidirectional Horizontally Polarized Antenna for 144 MHz by Dr. Carol F. Milazzo, KP4MD (posted 23 May 2012)... Read more
3 element 50MHz LFA-Q Super-Gainer Quad Style Yagi
Product Dimensions and Weight Product Length: 25.0000M Product Widtg: 1.0280M A 3 element LFA-Q (Super-rigid Quad-style) Super-Light Quad Style Yagi f... Read more
Review
How to update your IC-7300 to the latest firmware?
Short video showing the steps in the firmware upgrade process of the Icom IC-7300 HF radio. Make sure you read section 15 of the full owner’s ma... Read more
Measuring Coax Impedance – Ham Nation 378
Measuring Coax Impedance New ARRL 2019 calendar, Drok LM2596 voltage regulator, winterize your equipment. The new ARRL 2019 calendar is here, Amateur... Read more
How Does An Inexpensive Transceiver Sound Compared to A High End Transceiver?
Jim W6LG plays recordings of an Elecraft K3s and a Yaesu FT-450. Which sounds best to you? Vote for receiver #1 or receiver #2 and give a very short d... Read more
Icom IC-7851 Transceiver – ARRL Review – QST
Contesters and DXers are always looking for that competitive edge to magically pull out the weak signal that is either the rare country or multiplier... Read more
Sherwood Report on the #1 FTDX101D !
Sherwood Report “ANNOUNCEMENT – Friday May 10th, 2019: Sherwood Report on the FTDX101D We know that some have been waiting for the Sherwoo... Read more
Introduction to the SOTABeams Wolfwave
SOTABeams Features Fully adjustable audio band-pass filtering instantly adjustable for voice, data and CW (b/w 50 Hz to 5 kHz) VIDEO State-of-the-art... Read more
VHF
Super Gain HT Antenna By Diamond, SRH770S Dual Band
“If you are in the market for a high gain HT antenna for those fringe areas, this may be for you. The Diamond SRH770s is very flexible for porta... Read more
TYT SW-102 VHF / UHF SWR METER WITH RF POWER METER AND FREQUENCY COUNTER
VSWR. Forward and reflected power direct digital readout, without any calibration. Maximum measurable power range up to 120W. low insertion loss (0.3... Read more
ME3000-V 2m EME – VHF Amplifier ( 3KW – 144MHz )
VHF Amplifier Frequency Coverage: 144-146MHz amateur band. extensions and/or changes on request. • Power Output: 3000 W CW/SSB • Intermodu... Read more
Successful VHF QSO between ZS3 and ZD7
Kobus van der Merwe, ZS3JPY reports that between 19:45 and 21:45 UTC on Wednesday 7 November 2018, a QSO took place on 2 metres between St Helena Isla... Read more
How to work amateur radio satellites with your handheld (HT) radio
How to work amateur radio satellites with your handheld (HT) radio Visit the Worldwide Radio Forum at worldwidedx.com Read more
Es’hailSat 2 portable reception
Receiving Es’HailSat 2 from my balcony using *very* minimal setup. Read more
