Major Upgrade announced for DX Commander. These replace all telescopic pole stay-up kits from immediate effect. Read more
“Today we will be talking about the BD7IBI Telescoping Ham Radio and Shortwave Listening (SWL) Antenna. This is a Antenna capable of 20m-6M. Although this one is $21.00 USD, it does not come with the M10 too 3/8 24 thread adapter (which should be easy to find). Additionally, there are a lot of different variations […] Read more
Comet HFJ-350M Testing the Comet HFJ-350M 160-6 Meter Toy Box Antenna for Portable Ham Radio. Comet HFJ-350 Toy-Box 160M-6M 10-Band Portable Telescopic Antenna Separates into four convenient pieces for increased portability. Simply change the plug and change the frequency 1/4λ base loaded antenna Round-shape solderless Terminal for counterpoise is included, 12 AWG compatible Read more
Jim has a very difficult question. He is asking If you increase the diameter of the active element, in a dipole, would that increse the bandwidth and reduce the Q? He also is woundering if a tube of aluminnm window screen, would work as a dipole because of skin effect. Watch to learn more. Read more
The Chameleon RXL small receive-only loop gets a new pre-amp. Chameleon sent me the new pre-amp, which I installed, and this complete review compares the RXL with new pre-amp against my venerable MFJ-1886 small receive-only loop with pre-amp Read more
Another DL8LAS special RX short vertical HIZ is born. This antenna works from 50 khz to 30 Mhz. All details can you find here: www.dl8las.com Read more
“We are pleased to announce the new Bouvet series of telescopic masts, the ALU-3Y0J made from anodized aluminum and the GLV-3Y0J, made from galvanized steel. Both masts are designed to support at 9m full height the antennas that will be used during the upcoming DX-pedition to Bouvet island on January 2023, in extreme wind loads (35m/sec – […] Read more
New 28/50MHz dual ban Yagi models are being built and tested now at our manufacturing partners Wimo Antennen und Elektronik GmbH. This 8el 28/50MHz example has a single feed line (to avoid RF in the shack and damaged RX frontends) and covers 28-29MHz in addition to 50.0-50.5MHz. Look out for it on our product pages […] Read more
