If you go to Lowe's or Home Depot, check out their illuminated bulb display. They have a "vintage" bulb that has a standard size screw-in base, is about 4" tall, and emits an "Amber tint" illumination

Hi Bob, Antennas are the magic part of ham radio. Your 4sqrp tuner is a great one, basically designed for use with a "random length wire" antenna and a counterpoise wire. For portable use, the antenna

Hi Bob, What you have should work fine. After I read your attached article, I discovered it's not a standard 40 meter dipole. Your feedline type alters the dipole design to allow a shorter leg length,

Hi, At only 22ft per leg, sounds like you might have a 30 meter dipole, resonant around 10 mHz. Adding a 4 to 1 BALUN will take the balanced feedline to balanced 50 ohms to enter your tuner. Frank N6C

What is FS?

Gary, Kentucky is beautiful. If you get a chance, go North on 31W a little ways to West Point. As a teenager, I spent time there with my grandfather who lived about 2 blocks from the river. I was born

Good morning Gary, I was just joking around while sorting out all the wire jumpers in my rigblaster duo. I thought I'd thrown enough fairy dust in my story to make it funny, but not believable. Maybe

Hi Larry, Yep, I agree, ham radio as developed over the years. Got my ticket at 14 in 1954. Many years of fun. Just thought I'd relay my 78 year old understanding of the explanation I got when I asked

Hmmm. . . . DMR . . . Isn't that where you use a specifically equipped radio, on a specific frequency, with specific coding, specific color banding, at a specific time slot, using a specific password

Hey Bill, Do you know they've still got $2 bills in circulation? No place in cash register for them. What about silver dollars? No register place for them either. How long has it been since you've bee

I looked at the Lowe's link and noticed in the spring's product specifications that it weighs 9 pounds. Might work well if one end of it was fastened to the support pole or tree and other end to the r

Hobby Lobby has a good selection of inexpensive wooden boxes with lids (some hinged), that are great! Not all cities have a store, but you can look online. Frank N6CES

I also am interested. I was staring at my Cricket 80A, thinking . . . if I put in a crystal socket . . . . and a band change switch across the inductors . . . . and . . . and??? , I would have an 80/4

Yes Everett, that is true about IFR! Also, Rudolph fulfilled a requirement for Santa when the FAA instituted a ruling that all aircraft display a red safety light. Have a Merry Christmas, Frank N6CES

Kenneth, try Google! I found this ad for 2 caps with pulleys. Also looked at Gilbert erector set parts and pulleys. Found lots of pulleys, wheels, and gears for shafts. If all else fails, and you don'

Twenty years ago, my G5RV came with a balun. Dipole with coil in each leg, a length of window line from the center feedpoint, then a balun with SO239 to connect with 50ohm coax to shack. Worked great

Hmmm . . . After all that is set up, and you have gained access through the repeater, and the correct channel code, and color code, and time slot, now you're down the correct hallway, select the corre

Yeah, those Texas guys have it made. Connect to a few miles of barbed wire cattle fence, and load up!! :-) Frank N6CES

Hi Tim, The no luck is with qrp to the 40 or 80 meter 4sqrp nets. Too many miles between the Seattle area and the rest of you 4sqrp area guys. I've a Heathkit HW-7, an unbuilt Cricket 80A, and an ICOM

Ok, thanks. Just learning the beginnings of what dmr is. I read this qrp fourm with interest, and have listened Wed nights, but no luck .