One of those things - that doesn't make sense to me. I am about ready to sit down and fill out the log sheet for the certificate for working K6JSS Golden Jubilee Stations. As I...

PACC 2012 story - *What can I tell. This contest was enervating. My XYL was not too happy with 24 hours of contesting. And I have to admit I wasn't that much of use to her ...

Simple Home-Built Radio Projects page - The website of *Rick Anderson KE3IJ* is one of my favorites as it is filled with simple circuits, mainly simple receivers, that can easily be reproduced ...

HZ1PS - I did hear signals on 15 meter, a few moments later I heard HZ1PS calling, it was a nice chap, Peter from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. On 20 meter I worked II6LN...

Chris N7ICE's first steps with the Flex-1500 SDR - If like me, you're interested in seeing how SDR performs 'for real' you may well enjoy Chris, N7ICE's HamBrief video about getting started with his new Fle...

Opera Digital Data Mode Performance - Due to the effects propagation it is difficult to evaluate the parameters of a mode, particularly with detectability around the noise level. PA0A has done...

Indoor Dipole - I was experimenting this afternoon with an indoor dipole made last weekend for 10 meters. This was hung up in the upstairs bedroom of my cape, no attic ava...

So what's been going on......... - The repaired key ready for action I have not been able to get around to putting a post out there the last couple of days but I have been busy getting stuf...

PACC 2012 - Sinds eind december ben ik niet meer actief geweest in contesten. Ik had eigelijk niet zo'n zin in de PACC en het was maar de vraag of ik wel tijd zou hebb...

I had my fun... - Participated a few hours in the PACC contest this weekend. Condx was not to good but it was fun to be in this contest again. Could not spend the time I w...

Propeller crash - Yesterday I had another of those days that nearly made me decide to hang up my soldering iron for good. Some readers may have spotted the despondent blog p...

PACC 2012 its over! - Ben wel een beetje murv nu. CW only en Low Power /K3 power live scores alleen PI4TUE en PA6V lieten de live score zien. http://www.getscores.org/liv...

In a Spin - Aside from admiring, owning and using them, your humble servant is now active within the global economy of Leslie Speakers, having jointly developed an acc...

Covehead Lighthouse, Prince Edward Island, Canada. - *Recieved via Postcrossing DE 1227416. *

Skutterudites & clever conversions: Heat to electricity…and radio - So who’s going to be the first QRPer to turn this idea into a working QRPp transceiver… Engineers at General Motors are tinkering with a new alloy known ch...

Nice Cards from Hungary - Back on January 21st, I worked these two Hungarian stations. I especially like the one on top (HA5SE). Although happy to have them both, the one from Bu...

Carn Llidi a Brand New Hill de MW0BBU/p. - Well I must admit that the way the weather had been over the last couple of days here in the West I really thought I would miss out on a HuMP this four o...

20m Wspr - Did some Wspr’ing today earlier on10m and was basically drawing a blank, but when I looked very closely at the display there was a very faintest of faint...

UK propagation charts for February 2012 - Solar conditions have declined over the last month. Just a few weeks ago we were suffering from geomagnetic disturbances, with reports of aurora being see...

Yaesu FT-847 Earth station (3) Ready for 70 Mhz. - Today i finished the mod of the pa unit to have more power on 70 mhz with less current. Unmodified the transceiver provides approx 25 watts with way too hig...

Super Bowl Half-Time WRO-Pop'Comm Live Internet Chat Sprint, Sunday February 5 - Super Bowl Half-Time WRO-Pop'Comm Live Chat

Mission X: moet een astronaut een atleet zijn? - Als ik schoolkinderen spreek, krijg ik vaak de vraag of astronauten topsporters zijn. Of je een superconditie moet hebben om astronaut te worden. Dan verte...

An update - I haven't blogged for what seems ages, and I'm sure in that time I've gained some new followers ?! Amateur radio wise, well not a lot was happening, hence ...

Dipole centres, trap formers. Free. - Hi got a number of these after building the workshop... every unit had 4 of these but didn't use them on most so got about 50 of these. Rather than going i...

BITX20 - 6. Measuring the VFO - Just a small progress update on the BITX..... A while back i build the vfo part and started to do all the measuring as discribed in the manual.... Unfortuna...

Iedereen opeens gek op de zon - Nu op dit moment is de zon behoorlijk actief en is bij beide Polen van de aarde het Poollicht (Aurora) weer zichtbaar geweest. Voornamelijk zonnevlek AR140...

- We did have some nice Aurora last night, with good weather, so I did manage to get a few photos of the aurora. I have upladed the photos here I have upload...

600m SDR RX (TX) - As we know, presently there are a couple of frequencies of the 600m band open to amateur radio operators. Most of authorities allow transmission somewhere a...

Classic Universal Sound Card Interface - This interface by Skip Teller was put to use this past weekend with the FT-817 and a laptop running N1MM and using an end fed half wave wire down the 2nd f...

- I will be away for an extended period and will have no internet connection. No regular telephone service, for that matter. And so it seems an appropriate ...

Final Image? - This SSTV image acquired by JJ0LTH on Jan 04 at 02:56 UTC may be one of the last captured from ARISSAT-1. The last telemetry data was received on Wed, 04 ...

# 186 - Lighthouses of U. S. A. - Many thanks to Raymond for this post card which feature a stamp showing the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina.

Hospital Point Light (Beverly, MA) Ready for the Holidays - The Coast Guard Auxiliary has been busy preparing Hospital Point Light for the holidays. In addition to the six-foot diameter wreath that is usually put...

Observations on Hans' QRSS Kit - Dear reader! I was surprised. I can't recall when there was the last spontaneous contribution for this blog. No, the 12V mod of Hans' kit was not a direct ...

Why am I not surprised? - A couple of years ago, I subscribed to the CQ-Contest reflector list. That was back when I was trying my hand at contesting and I thought it might be a g...

My Oceaniadxcontest 2011 Cabrillo - START-OF-LOG: 2.0 ARRL-SECTION: DX CALLSIGN: YC1BJX CLUB: CONTEST: Oceania-DX-CW CATEGORY: SINGLE-OP 10M LOW CW CLAIMED-SCORE: 83655 OPERATORS: YC1BJX NAME:...

Portland - Boston - Leaving Portland and it`s heavy traffic I went south along smaller roads and tried to see more of the shore. Weatherwise was still not perfect, rainshowers...

Field Day Contest (SSB) and WWF PAFF-038 - Sunday the 4th of September,i was active in the Field Day Contest as PD7BZ/p I was active just with a small setup and 25 Watts. The place i was active in,Bos...

Seasonal change of antennas - Saturday was a nice day in The Netherlands (sunny and warm), so I decided to change antennas again: 6m yagi out and 30/40m dipole in. After 4 hours work, i...

APRS weather station? - I have been looking around the web to find an inexpensive aprs capable weather station kit. It seems to me that the only options are the FD-WX1from Fox Delt...

"Wij zijn aan het migreren!" in Aankondigingen - comment added by Coen - Beste Allen, Wij waarderen alle reacties op dit bericht en willen deze eigenlijk niet afsluiten, maar iedere keer dat hier iemand (en nu ben ik dat) rea...

"Wij zijn aan het migreren!" in Aankondigingen - comment added by Jeroen Mirck - Ik begrijp dat een migratie altijd ingewikkelder is dan je hoopt, maar is er echt geen grove schatting te geven hoe lang het ongeveer gaat duren? Voor VK...

We Love and Will Miss You, Angelina - As many of you know, my wife Angelina Harden unexpectedly passed away a couple days ago (Saturday, Aug 20, 2011). I’d like to thank all of our friends for ...

Dit gebeurt ook in onze achtertuin! - Naast het waarnemen van deepsky objecten en zwakke (S)HF signalen kun je dit ook tegenkomen in onze achtertuin! Een echtpaar roodbonte spechten aan het werk!

Quiet times ahead for the Sun...??? - If you have been following the details of the current solar cycle then you'll know that the peak which is supposed to be coming up in 2013 will be pretty l...

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Clear-Out.. - Ive decided to sell these few items in order for me to get myself a new canon 40/50D DSLR. or at least a Canon G 10/11, Please feel free to tell your frien...

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