It's cold here but decided to come down to the shack. I tuned around 40 M and stumbled onto W1AW/2 at 7.205 SSB. I tried a couple of times and what would you know? I got him. I couldn't believe it. HU

Been cold in beautiful central IL. I just looked and we're having a heat wave - 13 F! We still have snow on the ground. Sure has been a weird winter. I don't remember this much snow since I was a kid.

Snowing here in Central IL and blowing like crazy. That light drifting snow. Right now 18 - low tonight is supposed to be -16, high tomorrow -7. Tuesday supposed to be more 'normal' like. I got out of

I hope everyone has a Blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year. Remember the Reason for the Season. Dan -- KB9JLO

I know everyone has been talking about the sunspots this week but the far support on my W3EDP is down so my antenna is drooping badly. Well a local guy called me on the phone this evening, I think abo

I still have the SW+30 transceiver for sale. Built in a nice home made case. Bottom clamshell is PCB painted white and the top clamshell is blue textured aluminum. Works great! $75 shipped or best off

Small Wonder Labs SW30 CW transceiver. Built in a nice home made case. Bottom clamshell is PCB painted white and the top clamshell is blue textured aluminum. Works great. Not really used after I put i

Nice newsletter. I enjoyed the Brutus pictures. I have to go to that some year...

I had 1 contact tonight - John N9RLO in IN. He was running 10 watts to a NVIS dipole and I was running the FT-817 and full steam (5 watts) and the W3EDP EFW. Hey it was a good experiment right? And I

Anyone want to try SSB 7.278 tonight say about 8:15? I don't want to change things - just wanted to see if anyone wanted to try. I've never done an HF SSB net, only FM nets. I'm sure the format is sli

Keith, I too wonder why. If we go back to the fishing analogy, a bunch of fishermen lined up on the bank - nobody would blink an eye if one guy was using light tackle or ultra-light tackle and another

You got that right. If it's a regular stateside QSO, I sidestep the whole "what rig you got and what power are you running?" I swear 90% of the time your QSO will END right then and there! I guess som

David, Walter, everybody, thanks. I like QRP. I love my 817. And I love making DX QRP SSB. I don't think I'm a real DX'er - I just like it when I hear one and wait around and finally make a QSO. I hav

QRP 24 hours every day! Hi, hi! Just bagged S54ZZ, Simon, in Slovenia, 4850 miles!

Hey guys had another one this evening and I just had to share. Not to brag because I'm AMAZED. I talked to Geoffrey G8OFQ/DL portable (well sort of). He's running remote from Hamburg, Germany - his ri

Dave, great job. I did 1000 mi/watt earlier this year with YU5A, Belgrade, Serbia. It's cool to do 1000 mi/watt on SSB. I need to send in for my certificate! 73 Dan -- KB9JLO PS - Sleeps overrated...

I will be away from home for a few days, planning to spend the weekend in Indianapolis and attending the Indy hamfest . There will be no shipments - parts or kits - till early next week. If you email

I added a pic in the KB9JLO folder under photos. I got the idea from here: http://nt1k.com/blog/2013/power-pole-distribution-block/ but I added a pigtail to plug it into the source. It was HARD lining

I will be operating with our local club CENOIS , K9HGX is our club call. The club is small and we don't have a lot of active members so we have an "abbreviated" field day. We run a couple of rigs on H

Thanks for all the information from all of you. I do appreciate it. And I got a lot of positives on the reason to want a DSO. I've pretty much settled on a Hantek DSO5072P DSO. It is a 70MHz bandwidth