A Growing Concern
In this article I discuss getting the three element hex beam to work well. Please see Designing a Three-Element Hex Beam and Building the Three-Element Hex Beam for those phases of this project. The hex beam is basically a compact Yagi. Like the Yagi, the parasitic elements of the hex beam develop RF currents that [...]
Here are the slides from a presentation I gave to the Valley Radio Club on August 4, 2017. Variations on a Dipole - Power Point Variations on a Dipole - PDF Antenna patterns are all about interference
If you have success with any of these modifications, please drop me a note to let me know your experiences. Update 11/09/2020: Added section on adding CW KEY and PTT lines using a USB to Serial RS-232 port. Update 10/24/2023: Added section describing how to add 3.5mm audio jacks instead of using 24 pin AUX [...]
Broadcasting's use of abbreviations and obscure notation started with the original radio-men, when every character required some pain to transmit. Today's tweeters and texters have invented their own slang for much the same reason, but without the long linguistic history that accompanies radio lingo. When you first enter the ham world, you have to cross the language [...]
What can I say, I really am a nerd! All the gardening and beekeeping are just there to keep the tech guy in check. It got away from me lately. It all started when I ran into my old "Electroluminescent Receiver," a four band ham kit radio I found on the internet that I built [...]
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