When his wife injured her foot a few months ago, she had to be on crutches. When most people see aluminum crutches, they think of the time they too were on crutches and their armpits hurt.
Fischer saw a dipole antenna.
“I have built probably 100 or more antennas of all designs,” Fischer said. “After you do that you start looking at all conductors, metal objects, as antennas. You think what would happen if you tried loading up, put a signal into the antenna and radiate it into space. It’s something I do subconsciously, something I can’t help.
“A dipole antenna is as simple as you can get. It’s the link of the conductor, that’s it. Whenever you see those antennas, it’s immediate,” he said…..
Read Full Article:
With the National Hurricane Center (NHC) expecting Tropical Storm Isaias to become a hurricane again later today and make landfall this evening, the H... Read more
Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station plan to transmit slow-scan television (SSTV) images on August 4 – 5. The SSTV images will... Read more
SOLAR WIND SPARKS GEOMAGNETIC UNREST: Earth is inside a fast-moving (~600 km/s) stream of solar wind, and this is causing geomagnetic unrest around th... Read more
(2020-05-13) The Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC) invites radio amateurs world wide to participate in the annual WAE DX Contest. Effective of May 2... Read more
This release contains several important customer requests. The Yaesu FTDX101D/MP is added. The last QSL comment is gathered into callsign lookup. The... Read more
Silphase R1 receiver. Telescoping antenna 1.15m. Location is city center Warsaw, Poland. Outside temperature +4 Celsius degrees. Frequency 1413 kHz. I... Read more
The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) activated on 14.325 MHz on July 31 at 1500 UTC as Hurricane Isaias [pronounced: ees-ah-EE-ahs] heads toward the US on an... Read more
Recent Posts
Hurricane Watch Net Reactivates as Hurricane Warning Posted for the Carolinas
Slow-Scan Television Activity August 4 – 5 from ISS will Commemorate Apollo-Soyuz
Solar Cycle 25 is Coming to Life
Worked All Europe DX Contest – Rules 2020
Ham Radio Deluxe v6.7.0.301
![Silphase R1 receiver [ VIDEO ]](https://qrznow.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/head-img-265x168.png)
Silphase R1 receiver [ VIDEO ]
Hurricane Watch Net Activating as Hurricane Isaias Approaches US East Coast
Warning: file_get_contents(https://plusone.google.com/_/+1/fastbutton?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqrznow.com%2Flifelong-love-of-technology-has-local-man-doing-unique-projects%2F): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found in /home/qrznow/public_html/wp-content/themes/goodnews5/framework/functions/posts_share.php on line 151
