“A viewer asks: I want a home base station trans/receiver so I can listen till I am licensed. Need an antenna too. But all for under $1000 if possible. Any suggestions? Joe and I talk about some options and settle on the Xiegu G90 as a worthy option”
Antenna
THE COKE LOOP Antenna by PY1AHD
“The Coke Loop is a Small Magnetic Loop Antenna tuned by a trombone-style variable capacitor made with standard soda cans. In Brazil we… Read more
EVER WONDER IF A FULL-SIZE 40M YAGI MAKES A DIFFERENCE? by AA7XT
Check out this YouTube clip that Ulf SM3RAB made A/Bing the K1N DXpedition on a Magnum 340 full-size 3 element Yagi that uses the G0KSC OP-DES feed sy… Read more
500 mW on 7 MHz with the Wadetenna
Testing the Wadetenna on 7 MHz SSB. Only 500 milliwatts was used instead of the usual 5 watts. Contacts up to about 500km, mostly to portable stations… Read more
Building the Moxon Antenna
Building the Moxon Antenna is fairly easy and lends itself to imagination. No two Moxon’s are identical save the dimensions of the elements… Read more
Review
Unboxing Kenwood TH-D74A
Kenwood TH-D74A 144/220/430 MHz TRIBANDER. Triband Amateur radio packed with convenient features and the advantage of a digital transceiver with D-STA… Read more
Tips on Operating Linear Amateur Radio Satellites (Part 2)
Tips on Operating Linear Amateur Radio Satellites (Part 2) Read more
Measuring Coaxial Cable Losses @ HF, VHF, and UHF frequencies.
Measuring Coaxial Cable Losses @ HF, VHF, and UHF frequencies. Read more
Equipment
BUILD A COMPUTER TO CW INTERFACE
Using a well-known circuit, I show you how to build a simple computer interface so that your logging software can send CW through your radio. The logg… Read more
Morse Express Christmas Key by N1FN
“In Celebration of the Season… Morse Express presents the 2014 Christmas Key Fourteenth in the popular annual series, our 2014 Christmas… Read more
New release of 144/430 MHz dual bander TH-D74 Kenwood
TH-D74 Kenwood Industry’s first*1 portable amateur radio, supporting on both APRS and D-STAR® JVCKENWOOD will release a new high-end 144/430 MHz… Read more
Heil BM-10 Headset
The BM-10 headset was designed to be a lightweight (only 3 oz), articulate sounding boomset that is ideal for DXpeditions, mobile, and general rag che… Read more
Elad FDM-DUO: now available in camouflage!
FDM-DUO is a SDR tranceiver that offers the possibility to operate STand-alone like traditional radio or attached to a Personal Computer discovering t… Read more
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