Over on Mastodon a couple of days ago, a fellow posted a link to the ARRL CEO’s editorial in the May 2024 QST with this comment, “Seems like drama aimed at…everyone?” In the editorial, NA...
There have been rumors floating around for the past couple of days that MFJ was going to discontinue production. That seemed almost impossible to me because they’ve become such a big part of am...
https://www.kb6nu.com/wow-mfj-to-cease-production-on-may-17/
Here are a couple more QSL cards from my collection of QSLs whose calls spell words…. I’ve actually had this care for a while, but I just ran across it while going through a pile of cards I r...
In this episode, I joined Martin Butler M1MRB, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT and Edmund Spicer M0MNG, and we discussed: Amateur Radio Saves Family in Death Valley National Park NASA confirms ISS debris...
https://www.kb6nu.com/icq-podcast-episode-428-icqpodcast-live/
W6LG on SWR Standing wave ration (SWR) is arguably one of the most debated—and misunderstood—topics in amateur radio. Here is Jim, W6LG’s, take on it. CW without Morse Code? In amateur radi...
Rain puts a damper (literally!) on 30m operations I love my homebrew Cobra antenna… …but it suffers from one big drawback. When it rains, the ladder line impedance changes and I have to retun...
https://www.kb6nu.com/random-noise-wet-antenna-pota-ragchewing-more-ops-sending-bk/
I’ve written before about the cache of old QSLs that my brother came across several months ago while conducting an estate sale. The recipient of these QSLs lived near Detroit, so it’s underst...
Need to wind some toroids? While I’m waiting for my QRPLabs’ QMX kit to arrive, I thought I’d try to learn something about toroid winding. This video takes toroid winding to a whole new lev...
https://www.kb6nu.com/amateur-radio-videos-extreme-toroid-winding-cw-bandwidth-kb6nu-on-licw/
The Most Hackable Handheld Ham Radio Yet The UV-K5, released last year, might be the most hackable handheld ever, with a small army of dedicated hams adding a raft of software-based improvements...
Bandscope observations If you who read my blog regularly, you know I’m a big fan of bandscopes. Here are a couple of relevant observations: I almost missed a DX contact because the DX station c...
https://www.kb6nu.com/operating-notes-bandscope-observations-a-pirate-on-2m-vu2/