We are at the mercy of a multitude of noise sources in and around our ham shacks these days. I built myself a very useful tool for sniffing out noise sources a few years ago. I had bought a working battery powered Heathkit preamp for a few dollars at a hamfest and hadn’t really found […]
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Now that we are nearly at the sunspot maximum, 10m is open nearly every day for US and DX contacts. The really cool thing is that US tech license holders can operate on this band with up to 200W on SSB from 28.3 to 28.5MHz. With the very minimum of set up a new tech
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Since moving to Fountain Hills, I’ve made regular use of my old 14AVQ vertical antenna. It works very well due to it being out in the open garden area away from trees and other obstructions. Unfortunately, it has no WARC bands. So just for fun I thought that I’d try adding additional ¼ wave vertical
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