August meeting featured Craig KDOYTI with 2 vertical antennas, both easy to set up like at a park or for Field Day. In the picture here, Craig is putting together his JPC-12 center loaded vertical. It comes in a bag that’d fit easily into your laptop computer carry-on bag, and screws together in half a […]

In the late 1970s Harold KOJBC had a solar station, just a panel or 2 with a battery for his Ten-Tec station. (The Ten-Tec Triton – now called the 540 because Motorola owned the Triton name – is a 5 band, hundred Watt HF rig.) Those old radios (including the Kenwood 520) weren’t synthesized, and […]

John WBOCMC has a tech article in the August 2023 QST magazine on p.50. He made an audio signal generator, engineered it, and even made the circuit board himself. Wait, it gets better. He’s making his own ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) system, and to test it he needed 2 audio signals in quadrature (same freq […]

Keith KEOAEP has rescheduled the Lake Manawa Saturday get-togethers for just once a month, and in July 2023 brought in over a dozen of us along with half a dozen HF radio setups. Present the 3rd Saturday (delayed a week by the North Bend Hamfest) were: . Keith KEOAEP Icom 7300 Don WOAF Xiegu 5105 […]

Both Bill and Bob had tree damage last night, 07.11, and both pretty much cleaned up their yards before beginning to cut away tree limbs that were still hanging. Bill used an aluminum ladder and long fiberglass tree saw pole to cut away damaged limbs, and then went over to Bob’s house to help. This […]