The winning article for the October 2020 QST Cover Plaque award is “Ham Bootcamp: Getting Hams On the Air” by Fred Kemmerer, AB1OC.
The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page. Cast a ballot for your favorite article today!
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Review
Unboxing and Testing the Yaesu FT-891 : Ham Radio 2.0: Episode 67
Yaesu‘s newest HF mobile radio has some cool new features, but leaves out other options of its predecessors. Let’s take a look at the radi... Read more
Ultimate Raspberry Pi for your Ham Radio
“The ultimate raspberry pi for ham radio is here! This raspberry pi for ham radio has read/write speed ~10 times faster than a micro SD cards. O... Read more
Unboxing TYT MD-380 – HRN 267
Unboxing a TYT MD-380 DMR HT, and a lot more rambling (because we don’t do unboxings). I also talk about the BTech (BaoFeng) UV 5×3 tri-ban... Read more
Equipment
The DUC/DDC HF/VHF SunSDR2 transceiver
SunSDR2-transceiver – is an up-to-date system of the amateur radio communication in the HF and VHF frequency bands with the digital signal proce... Read more
MRF101AN: 100 W CW over 1.8-250 MHz, 50 V Wideband RF Power LDMOS Transistor
These devices, MRF101AN and MRF101BN, are designed for use in HF and VHF communications, industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) and broadcast and ae... Read more
IC-9700 Firmware Update
Download Type Firmware Model name IC-9700 Version Version 1.23 Update 2020/04/03 Major changes Changes from Version 1.21 Changed the screen drawing se... Read more
Rotator Genius – 4O3A
Rotator Genius is a smart rotator controller that uses a magnetic sensor for reading azimuth. It can be controlled by a Windows or Android app. Motor... Read more
EMTRON DX-1SP -1200 Watts CW output- FCC approved!
EMTRON DX-1SP General Description The NEW DX-1SP with 1200 Watts CW, 1500 Watts PEP of clean signal output is Emtron’s latest and smalles... Read more
Antenna
XR3 on prototype new Force 12 ToT (Tilt Over Tower)
3D animation by Jeremy Cleaveland, KE0CGU Read more
Does 5 x Copper Rods Help my Antenna Field and Inverted L?
So I grounded the fence to the ground to help my Inverted L on 80m. WIll it make any difference? HUGE project this time – but only 8 minutes for... Read more
Corner reflector antenna
A corner reflector antenna is a type of directional antenna used at VHF and UHF frequencies.It was invented by John D. Kraus in 1938.[3][4] It consist... Read more
App - Mobile
Free App Allows Blind Hams to Work PSK31
A free, new app — Accessible Digipan — has been released that allows blind hams to operate PSK31. The download includes the app, audio tutorials, deta... Read more
OpenHPSDR Radio – Android App
Check this new app on Google Play Software Defined Radio. Supports the following hardware: HPSDR Atlas based systems using Metis. HPSDR Hermes... Read more
DX Hunter – The amateur radio App for DX-enthusiasts
DX Hunter – The amateur radio App for DX-enthusiasts Description DX-Hunter is an application for amateur radio operators, short wave listeners a... Read more
SDR Touch demo on Android device using SDRplay RSP
This demonstrates turning an Android Tablet (or Android Phone) into a highly portable comms receiver or spectrum analyzer operating from Long Wave to... Read more
DX Alert App ( Mobile )
DX Alert App Instead of being connected to a DX cluster directly you can use DX Alert to monitor the cluster for you and get notifications on your pho... Read more