Antenna
Cheap Tilt-Over Vertical Antenna
“I finished the project! Fantastic way of tilting over my vertical antennas. I will review this again in a few weeks to see what I learned... Read more
Installed a HUGE 90m (300 feet) Receive Loop
Amazing 90m loop with 4:1 balun. How does it compare to the smaller Loop On Ground? Read more
Measuring Balun Ratios
I have been asked how to measure the ratios of a Balun or an Unun. So if you’re someone who has that same question this is a video for you. Read more
Resonant Frequency of Antennas
“The feedline to an antenna will perform better if the antenna has the same impedance. Jim Heath W6LG uses the RigExpert AA-2000 to measure a sm... Read more
RX Antenna – I Installed a Loop On Ground (LOG) for Ham Radio
“I have never tried a Loop RX antenna actually on the Ground! So today I tried it out for my Ham Radio station. This is the installation video a... Read more
Review
Virtual Reality For Ham Radio With Oculus Quest 2
Virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Quest 2 has the capability of remoting into your ham shack computer for remote control of any application on... Read more
MOSFET – The Most significant invention of the 20th Century
What makes a truly world-changing invention?. Of all the inventions of the 20th century just one could be said to have changed the world in such a way... Read more
The only five things you need (for portable operation)
Stop buying equipment, you only need these five things to have a successful ham radio portable operation. Read more
How Good is the IC-7300 Internal Tuner?
Lee, KA5NHU, watched Ask Dave Episode #391 and has a question. Could you use the internal tuner inside the IC-7300 or should you use an external tuner... Read more
Uses of Pre-Amp, Attenuation, Notch, Noise Blanker, Noise Reduction, and IP+ ?
Robert, W4RKM, has watched many videos on the funtions and capabilities of a rig, but he wants to know the differences and applications for the variou... Read more
Equipment
TR-35 4-Band 5-Watt CW Transceiver Kit
DC Input Voltage Vs. Typical RF Output DC In 17 meters 20 meters 30 meters 40 meters 9.5V 4.4W 4.5W 4.9W 4.0W 10V 4.8W 5.0W 5.1W 4.5W 12V 6.5W 7.0W 7.... Read more
FX-4C Transceiver
The FX-4C is a new SDR transceiver developed by BG2FX. It covers all of the major HF bands, and includes wide-band receive capabilities. I... Read more
Runbo P5 4G DMR VHF/UHF
Military grade Tablet with integrated RTK Positioning powers Forensic Mapping, Collision Reconstruction, Land Surveying etc. Running Android, you can... Read more
My Favorite Ham Radio Gear Of 2021 – Gift Guide
Time to look back over 2021 and talk about my favorite gear, why I like it and why I recommend it! Read more
(tr)uSDX Prototype: on-board measurement equipment demo
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
Software
DXLog 2.5.29 is now available
DXLog was ignoring some cluster spots from DXSpider nodes. DXLog was also ignoring some PSK spots. These have been fixed. Problems with the spot quali... Read more
LORA APRS – iGate & Tracker Configuration & Test
Here we take a look at the Lora APRS project using the TTGO Lora Boards LORA Features:Working voltage: 1.8~3.7v Acceptable current: 10~14mA Transmit c... Read more
New Icom Amateur Radio USB Driver and Control Software Updates
Over the Christmas and New Year Holiday, Icom released updates that will provide improvements to the IC-705/ID-52E USB driver and RS-BA1 Version 2 and... Read more
SDRangel – TX & RX Software Defined Radio
An overview of some of the features in SDRangel, an open-source TX & RX SDR (Software Defined Radio) application. Read more
PDW – An SDR Decoder For ACARS & POCSAG Pagers
PDW – An SDR Decoder For ACARS & POCSAG Pagers Read more
