In this video I show a article from QST magazine that is from April 1993 on how to build a 2 meter Yagi for 7 bucks.
Antenna
VK5SFA Wins the April QST Cover Plaque Award
The winning article for the April 2019 QST Cover Plaque award is “A High-Power 160- and 80-Meter Transmitting Loop Antenna” by Steve Adler, VK5SFA. Th... Read more
HF Unity Gain Antenna Survey (#246)
“A Necessarily Incomplete Survey of Amateur Radio HF Unity Gain Antennas–a look at the many, many antennas used in ham radio that have abo... Read more
QST Announces 2017 Antenna Design Competition Winners
QST has announced the winners of its 2017 Antenna Design Competition. Following a solicitation for entries earlier this year. members submitted nearly... Read more
LOW NOISE EXPLAINED ( LFA Antennas ) by G0KSC
A long time has passed since we have to accept the negative aspects of matching Yagi antennas. With modern software, knowledge and optimisation techni... Read more
Review
Hamfest 2017 – Preview of the Icom IC-7610 and IC-R8600 rigs
In part one of our reports from Hamfest 2017 we have a sneak preview of the Icom IC-7610 and IC-R8600 rigs. We meet the new owners of PW Magazine, and... Read more
Can I Use My HT From a Tornado Safe Room?
“Steven Robertson, KEØJLG, asks if he can use his HT from a tornado/storm safe room. The question is simple, but the answer is a bit more compli... Read more
LimeSDR Mini – Full Duplex SDR Transceiver – DATV – QO100 – Es Hail 2
The LimeSDR Mini development board is a hardware platform for developing and prototyping high-performance and logic-intensive digital and RF designs t... Read more
“This week I’m reviewing the Openspot by Shark RF. No images to hunt down, It runs D-Star, DMR & Fusion all in one box. Don’t fo... Read more
Hoarding Handheld Radio Batteries & Connecting Radios To Power
“How do we actually connect our radios to a power source? Also, should we have more than one handheld radio battery? Should we go a step further... Read more
Equipment
Walkie Talkie QRP QSO with XIEGU X5105
Features a built-in highly efficient automatic antenna tuner, split frequency XCVR function, RIT receive fine tuning, NB noise suppressor, NR digital... Read more
RADDY MULTI-FUNCTION BACKPACK
PERFECT FOR OUTDOOR: The Raddy backpack is perfect choice for outsoor using. It’s with plenty of pockets to carry all your needed stuff when pre... Read more
Ameritron AL 811
Ameritron AL 811 The first 600 watts make the differenceThe Al-811 gives you 600 watts PEP output — thats nearly 2 full S-units ov... Read more
238C 2KW High Power Antenna Tuner
238C 2KW High Power Antenna Tuner Model 238C now features a large cross needle SWR and peak reading power output meter. Model 238C uses our tri... Read more
Solid State General Communication Power Amplifier- GCS1D2GYV
1.5 – 31.5 MHz / 2500 Watts The GCS1D2GYV (SKU 4054) is suitable for HF broadband or band specific high power, CW and pulse Jamming applications... Read more
