With Keith KE0AEP in charge of SWIARC Field Day this year, we were on the South side of Council Bluffs IA in a small park adjacent to (1 mile wide) Lake Manawa. . . This was the 43 foot HF vertical put up at our FDay site. . . And this was the inside of […]

I think George KDONME (SK) would probably approve of this. He was a great Prepper. Suppose you’re on vacation and that Most Likely mini disaster occurs – the Lights Go Out. You’ve rented a boat and been out fishing, returning to find the power off – no lights, no air conditioning, no phone service for […]

Greeting you on arrival at the West side of Lake Manawa site were these three Amateur Radio banners plus four (4) decent size tents and a couple of generators. At the Noon safety meeting Keith KEOAEP handed out a number of items; a reprint of the safety page in QST magazine, and a large print […]

Let it be known… this was my (KONWJ) First Contest. Having only obtained my Tech license less than a year ago, I didn’t know what I was in for. . There was very clearly pent-up excitement for the ‘start’ of the contest. The local 146.52 & 446.00 freqs lit up when the clock struck 1pm… […]

This is a Direct Conversion radio. . i.e. It is not a Superheterodyne format receiver. And it does not have an RF stage of amplification. The ‘DC’ part means there is no Local Oscillator and therefore no Intermediate Frequency amp where the superhet gets most of its gain. And because there is only 1 tuned […]