Big Bright Regions Beckon Amid a Big Aurora Show | Solar Storm Forecast 11.22.2021

“Activity remains subdued this week with only pockets of fast solar wind to bring sporadic aurora to high latitudes, nothing like the G3 show we saw a couple of weeks ago. Aurora photographers at high latitudes could get some views through the early part of the week, but aurora chasers at mid-latitudes will need to watch from the sidelines. Amateur radio operators must also wait though a lull in solar flux, which has dipped again into the high 70s. Luckily, these conditions will change soon as a returning bright region (old M-flare player, region 2891) rotates into view again in about three days. This means radio propagation on Earth’s dayside will begin improving by the end of the week. As for GPS users, the lack in activity and the dip in solar flux actually serves to aid GPS reception, so enjoy the good conditions all over the globe this week.”

Antenna

Lesson 6.1 Antenna Basics

December 19, 2014 No comments

Antenna Basics “General Class Ham Radio instructional video, introduces Section 6.1 in the ARRL General Class License Manual. The section is ext... Read more

HF Multiband Vertical Antenna – FALCON OUT-250B

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SDRplay comparison of 4 popular magnetic loop antennas

August 25, 2021 No comments

In this video Mike Harwood compares 4 different active mag loop antenna at various frequencies up to 52MHz using two SDRplay RSPduos which allowed sim... Read more

Field Day Antennas [ PodCast ] – “ARRL The Doctor is In”

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The Doctor offers advice about antenna options for the upcoming ARRL Field Day.  Read more

Low Cost HF Portable Antennas

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Review

ICOM IC-9700 Review and Full Walk Through

September 21, 2019 No comments

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XIEGU GNR 1 Noise Reduction Unit – Full Review

June 11, 2022 No comments

Xiegu GNR1 digital audio noise filter is an audio processing device integrating digital noise reduction and digital filtering. It will effectivel... Read more

Yaesu FTDX-10 Menu and Feature Overview with W9FFF Ham Radio Dude

April 06, 2021 No comments

New from Yaesu, the FTDX-10 HF Transceiver – today I’ve invited Sean, W9FFF, from the Ham Radio Dude channel to go though all of the menu... Read more

Unboxing the MFJ-998 – 1500 Watts automatic antenna tuner

May 30, 2017 No comments

Full 1500 watts SSB/CW…Digital & Analog SWR/WattMeter . . . All features of MFJ IntelliTuners– Ultra-fast, Safe Automatic Tuning . . . Wide... Read more

Digi Mode Ham Radio Hat for Raspberry Pi

December 13, 2018 No comments

“Hello Operators in the first video with the DRAWS HAT for the Raspberry Pi, I speculated about the impact this new hardware would have on the h... Read more

Equipment

How to Build A 130 Watt Dummy Load for HF Ham Radio

April 26, 2016 No comments

        In this video I go through the building of a paint can dummy load that a ham radio operator may require for testing and tu... Read more

Fairwaves launches new SDR products

October 17, 2019 No comments

Fairwaves is launching two new “X“- products this fall: XYNC – the ultimate low-cost massive MIMO SDR, with up to 32×32 transmit/receive channels XCOM... Read more

(tr)uSDX Prototype: on-board measurement equipment demo

December 03, 2021 No comments

Short teaser of the on-board measurement equipment. This is by far not the final software, but it shows the hardware features we have, making life for... Read more

RTL-SDR BLOG V3 UNITS AND ANTENNAS BACK IN STOCK AT AMAZON

May 09, 2020 No comments

Just a note that our RTL-SDR Blog V3 units and antennas are now back in stock at Amazon.com with local US stock. There were a few manufacturing and sh... Read more

DX Engineering – RXSHARE Audio Switch DXE-RXSHARE

January 17, 2019 No comments

Audio Switch, Control Box, Independent Selection of Audio from One or Two Transceivers to Two Headphones, Passive Device, Each DX Engineering RXSHARE... Read more