“With region 2756 approaching the west limb and already starting to fade away, here is a little graph I put together showing the number of sunspot regions assigned between January 2019 and January 2020. Cycle 24 regions are in Red and new Cycle 25 regions are in Blue. This gives you a good idea of the shift between cycles that is now underway.
Active Regions belonging to Cycle 24 during this period were 2732, 2733, 2734, 2735, 2736, 2737, 2738, 2739, 2740, 2741, 2742, 2743, 2745, 2746, 2747, 2748, 2749 and 2751.
Active Regions belonging to new Cycle 25 during this period were 2744, 2750, 2752, 2753, 2754, 2755 and finally 2756.
Hopefully this trend will continue at a much quicker rate than expected.
Curt, KB9JQU, has a newer question around the topic of grounding. He is wondering how are you to ground when you are doing portable operations? Read more
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Dave, W9GR explains what is CESSB – Controlled Envelope SSB and how it gives your more RF Talk power. Read more
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Review
Grounding When Portable
DISCOVERY TX 500 Upgrade Amplifier & ATU!
Wireless, Off-Grid, No-License Communication For $27.99 (LoRa Meshtastic)
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HF Band Plan Review
You asked for it, here it is: a live A/B test of the Wolf River Coil vs the Chameleon CHA-LEFS End Fed Half Wave antenna. Which will win in this Parks... Read more
Jared, N0SPC, is the only ham in his country, and he has a question regarding phasing. He wants to know if he can use a phased array of mobile whips t... Read more
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One man’s observation of different radiation patterns that evolved from choosing different antenna installation orientations. What are your thou... Read more
HF verticals are very popular for the smaller suburban gardens. How do they perform and are there any improvements you should consider? Read more
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Today I go through all of the steps and pieces for building the BuddiHex Hexbeam antenna from Buddpole. This might be the best portable ham radio ante... Read more
Antenna
Wolf River Coil vs End Fed Half Wave: Brunet Island State Park, WI POTA K-1442
Phasing Antennas for Directionality
Chameleon CHA-MPAS 2.0 Portable Ham Radio Antenna System
Using FT8 to demonstrate Antenna Orientations
Improving Suburban HF Vertical Antennas
Reduce Common Mode Current (CMC) with a Easy to Build Choke
Building the BuddiHex Hexbeam | Best Portable Ham Radio Antenna
WSJT-X version 2.5.1 releasedThe development team have announced the General Availability (GA) release of WSJT-X version 2.5.1. This release mainly co... Read more
“Dear WSJT-X and MAP65 Users, We are pleased to announce that a public Release Candidate WSJT-X 2.5.0-rc4 is now ready for download by beta testers. O... Read more
JS8Call Overview and Settings 2021 Read more
To commemorate our 3rd anniversary, special event stations will be on air during the FT8DMC Activity Days from 1. to 31. July 2020. All stations will... Read more
In a post to the WSJT-X email group today, Joe Taylor K1JT hinted at some ongoing experimentation of a new digital mode with sub-modes. His post was a... Read more
WWSA GACW I – Dates Second weekend of June of every year. From Saturday 15.00 UTC until Sunday 15.00 UTC. 24 hours period. II – Goal To co... Read more
Digital Modes
WSJT-X version 2.5.1 released
RC WSJT-X 2.5.0-rc4 is now ready for download by beta testers
JS8Call Overview and Settings 2021
FT8DMC 3rd Anniversary-Activity Days 2020
K1JT , JOE TAYLOR HINTS AT POSSIBLE NEW MODE!
WWSA GACW Contest Rules.
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“I’m taking a 10,000 FT look at three types of ham radio programing software. There’s so much to unpack here that a quick overview i... Read more
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FTM-6000E – 50W transmitting power – Reception range from 108 to 999.995 MHz – New “E2O-III” user interface – Remo... Read more
New from Alinco is the DR-MD500T, then dual band DMR mobile version of their popular dual band DMR HT. DR-MD500T Dual Band Mobile DMR VHF/UHF Portable... Read more
VHF
Radioddity DB20-G Compact 20W GMRS Radio
What Ham Radio Programming Software Should You use?
TIDRADIO BL-1 Bluetooth Baofeng Programmer – Flawed Execution, Poor Software
Best Handheld Ham Radio 2021
Yaesu REVEALS the FTM-6000R Dual Band Mobile Ham Radio
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Alinco DR-MD500T Dual Band DMR Mobile Radio