Review
My Favorite Amateur Radio & Video Gear Of 2020
Wrapping up 2020 with a recap on my favorite things! This list includes both gear for ham radio and video creation. I hope you enjoy it! Read more
FTdx10 & IC-7300 Weak CW Signal RX Comparison
“My good friend Joel, KC4WZB, loaned me his brand new Yaesu FTdx10. When I say loaned, I mean he picked it up at Ham Radio Outlet and brought it... Read more
Extensive Ground System at N6GR
“Brad Rich, N6GR, walks us around his Alamogordo, New Mexico, ground installation to see the extensive lengths he went to in order to create a v... Read more
Jim Heath W6LG Discusses Antenna Gain, Yagis and Rotators
Jim Heath W6LG talks about antenna gain using a light bulb. He shows a simple yagi and 2 brands of antenna rotator Read more
News
Hurricane Watch Net Set to Activate as Gordon Courts Hurricane Status
Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) Manager Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, says the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season has been relatively quiet up until now, but September... Read more
A Solar Flare Almost Sparked a Nuclear War in 1967
Aerial view of three radar stations at the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System in Anderson, Alaska, in 1962. Image: Wikimedia by Maddie Stone ... Read more
ISS Packet Digipeater is Now on 70 Centimeters
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) packet digipeater aboard the ISS has been active for several days now on 437.550 MHz. The... Read more
AM Rally 2020 Gets Under Way on February 1
The fourth annual AM Rally operating event will take place February 1 – 3 (UTC). The annual AM Rally encourages all operators to explore amateur radio... Read more
Digital Modes
Second Public Test of FT8 DXpedition Mode Demonstrates High Contact Rates Possible
The second public test of FT8 DXpedition Mode has shown that the mock DXpedition stations (“Foxes”) were able to work the pileups of callers (“Hounds”... Read more
A New FT8 with Rag Chew Abilities ( FT8CALL )
FT8 has taken over the airwaves as the digital communication mode for making QSOs over HF/VHF/UHF. The mode has been widely popular as the latest offe... Read more
PSK Automatic Propagation Reporter
This started out as a project to automatically gather reception records of PSK activity and then make those records available in near realtime to inte... Read more
New version of FT8CALL released
“Alright. Enough jib-jab. Here are the notable changes in 0.6: * Version 0.6 is not backwards compatible with 0.5 so you should upgrade ASAP. *... Read more
Antenna
The $4.00 Ham Radio Satellite Antenna
Ham Radio Satellite Antenna Simple, inexpensive and lots of fun! Here is an easy to make home brew antenna that can get you on the air working... Read more
2m Yagi Beam Antenna | 144 MHz 10 Element Super-Light High Gain OWL G/T
OWL G/T Yagis Beam Antenna are specialized, ‘hot rod’ versions of the already high-performance OWL – Optimised Wideband Low impedan... Read more
CHA EMCOMM III Base – 3.5-30 MHz
The EMCOMM III Base antenna, is an effective multi-band High Frequency (HF) antenna specially designed for short to long range base station HF communi... Read more
BIG SIGNAL DX-Quad – 5 Bands!
Discover the BIG SIGNAL DX-Quad antenna , this new design of a single element Multi-Band Quad covers up to 5 bands in HF from 10 to 20 meters. An incr... Read more
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