Europe Is Open Tonight!
FT4, 35-75 watts barefoot into my 49:1 in my front yard, I’m getting QSO’s with Finland, Slovenia, Ukraine, Spain, New Zealand, Hungary. This is crazy!
Europe Is Open Tonight! Read MoreAmateur Radio
FT4, 35-75 watts barefoot into my 49:1 in my front yard, I’m getting QSO’s with Finland, Slovenia, Ukraine, Spain, New Zealand, Hungary. This is crazy!
Europe Is Open Tonight! Read MoreHey Amateurs! I’ve built several 49:1 ununs with good success. One of my units is setup more or less permanently in my front yard starting at my 2nd floor window …
Extend Your EFHW With This 1 Weird Trick Read MoreI finally made my own QSL cards! I got the idea from YLRasia – R1BIG. She created a card printing out a photo and then printing a label for the …
QSL Card Read MoreSo I’m back to Subaru’s. While we still have our Audi’s I wanted a vehicle that served a different purpose than our other vehicles. Some of my must-haves and goals …
New Subaru Outback Read MoreI hit the Canary Islands on FT4 on only 35 watts! I used my Com 7100 with my homemade 49:1 with a 67 foot antenna on 40 meters. Thanks for …
Canary Islands! Read MoreInteresting thing happened today. One of the symptoms of RF in the shack is when you’re using a digital mode like FT8 and you transmit, your computer says that the …
EFHW Audio Disconnected or Calling Alaska Read MoreBelgium I was trolling 20 meters with my outside 49:1 EFHW frozen wire antenna and I heard from oq4u. Cranked my 7100 up to 100 watts and yelled on FT4. …
Belgium Read MoreWelp, that didn’t go well after several hours of tweaking. I tried to check my winlink email using my km4ack build Raspberry Pi. I had troubles setting up the 705 …
Raspberry Pi 4 + Pat Winlink + ARDOP + Icom 705 Fail Read MoreMy old Raspberry Pi 3 (without WiFI and Bluetooth) was too slow to do anything meaningful except run command line tools like RTL_433. I can’t imagine what would happen if …
Build-a-Pi From KM4ACK Read MoreI finally learned to use a manual tuner. It was easier than I thought, despite the instructions from MFJ being not very clear. Of course they made more sense after …
Using a Manual Tuner Read More