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● See images – and new products – from the 2018 Dayton Hamvention.
● Try a novel approach to using windowed feed lines.
● Build a two-element Yagi antenna for 17 meters.
● Learn the symbolism behind the FCC Seal.
…and much more!
Enjoy Content You Won’t Find in the Print Edition…
● See our video demonstration of the HF Signals BITX40 40-meter SSB transceiver.
Every issue of QST is filled with the news and features you need to keep active in Amateur Radio.
The JK2040 Hawk has phenomenal performance characteristics on 20m and 40m. The 38ft boom 20m Yagi has been optimized for high gain and a good F/R with... Read more
“After reading many antenna articles in the Internet and a couple ARRL antenna books I got interested in physically small HF antennas. My... Read more
“Hope (KM4IPF) talks about the Radiowavz Sentinel Expedition Hex Beam that she and her siblings have been using. They have come up with a few ti... Read more
“I have wanted to try 2 meter SSB mobile for some time but did not have a horizontally polarized antenna to try it out. Since I had success buil... Read more
The Bonito ML-200 is a wide band active antenna for reception of long, medium and short waves as well as the lower VHF band. The antenna is is charact... Read more
Design goals Like many fellow radio amateurs, I own a fairly standard shortwave radio station consisting of a 100W HF transceiver driving a 1kW... Read more
Antenna
JK2040-Hawk – Yagi antenna of 5 elements for the 20 m band and 3 elements for the 40 m band on a 40 foot (12.19 m) boom
Antenna experiment – Fractal Quad for 28 Mhz band
Radiowavz Sentinel Expedition
2 Meter & 70 Centimeter Mobile Halo Antenna Project
New! Bonito Loop ML-200
Six-Band HF Center-Loaded Off-Center-Fed Dipole by ON4AA
“Unboxing, building and using the QRP Labs QCX single-band, 5-watt QRP radio. This advanced technology radio borrows ideas from software-defined... Read more
The lightbar and custom voice prompts are shown in operation on the NX-3000 series heandheld walkie talkie radio, these features are a big advantage f... Read more
Operating mode: A1A(CW)，A3E(AM)，J3E(USB/LSB)，F3E(FM) minimum frequency stepping: 1Hz Antenna impedance: 50Ω Operating temperature range: -10℃ ~ +60℃ F... Read more
Kenwood TH D74 Read more
BTECH UV-50X3 X-Series Mobile – 50 Watt Tri Band Radio 13.8V (15 Amp) Operating Voltage Source Required – Dual Receiver Radio (Dual RF), C... Read more
Review
Review of QRP Labs QCX QRP Radio
NX-3000 Series lightbar and custom voice prompts | Kenwood Comms
Xiegu X5105 QRP Portable HF Radio – Review and Demo HF/6m
First Impressions Of Kenwood TH D74 by K6UDA
BaofengTech BTECH 50X3 Triband Mobile Radio Review and Power Testing
On Friday the 29th of May 2020, there was an extensive Sporadic-E opening across Europe which reached as high as 144 MHz allowing stations across the... Read more
AnyTone AT-588 A really good little 2m mobile at a great price, the AT588 packs a punch too with its adjustable power output up to 60 watts. Output Po... Read more
Small, Slim and Smart High-Resolution Color LCD Multiple Languages License Key Upgrade NXDN™ Trunking Upgrade DES/AES Encryption with OTAR OTAP and OA... Read more
*Photo by KG4AKV Jhon Brier Hamvention 2016 Ohio Designed for Weak Signal, Tropo Scatter, Meteor Scatter, Digital, & Contest Operation! The BEKO... Read more
Icom UK together with TX Films have produced a video providing an introduction to D-STAR and the Icom RS-MS1A Android D-STAR application softwa... Read more
Baojie BJ-218 The function of the new development menu Personalized design operation Dual Display, Dual Standby & Dual Track Mini Size, Power Sup... Read more
VHF
Amazing opening on 144 MHz from Cape Verde Islands to Poland
AnyTone AT-588 VHF
F3400D F5400D Series – Radios Digitales IDAS
BEKO HLV-950 – 950 Watts 50 MHz – Solid State Amp
New Video, D-STAR and the Icom RS-MS1A Android App
Baojie BJ-218 Mini Dual Band 25W Mobile Radio UHF VHF Transceiver
On the 17th of July 2020, there was an opening between the Canary Islands and the UK & Ireland on the VHF & UHF bands. A remarkable contact wa... Read more
ARRL will be a virtual exhibitor at the all-online QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo, Friday – Sunday, August 7 – 9. ARRL staffer Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R — a f... Read more
Meeting in virtual session July 17 – 18, the ARRL Board of Directors conferred three major awards. The Hiram Percy Maxim Award The ARRL Board conferre... Read more
Bob Behnken, KE5GGX, was one of two NASA astronauts who made spaceflight history over the weekend. Behnken and Doug Hurley were the first astronauts s... Read more
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
News
New 2700km+ IARU Region-1 tropo record on 23cms between Ireland and the Canary Islands – 17th July 2020
Meet Up with ARRL Virtually August 7 – 9 at QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo
ARRL Board Confers Awards and Recognitions
Radio Amateur Takes Part in Historic First Commercial Human Spaceflight to ISS
Hurricane Watch Net Reactivates as Hurricane Warning Posted for the Carolinas
Slow-Scan Television Activity August 4 – 5 from ISS will Commemorate Apollo-Soyuz
