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
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Modifications to the IC-751A for the Digital Modes
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. The 30 year old ICOM HF radios still have a bit of life in them if given [...]
Ham Lingo
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 [...]
Radio Daze
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 [...]
Squash Practice 