Many years ago I used a home made slinky antenna strung across the bedroom of my second floor apartment in Ok City, and with a Heath HW-7 had a useable operation. Granted, no dx but I was on the air.

Just think, if you could travel faster than the speed of light you could travel out into space ahead of your radio wave, slow down, and then copy your own transmission as it went past you. Wow!! All t

Goodness gracious, folks! Here we go with them derned kilocycles and hertz, again. My "old sparky" didn't have any of them things. It put out a signal on a wavelength, more or less, in meters, or metr

My goodness, folks! I don't believe I've ever seen such angst over a few measly Hertz. My "old sparky" covers several hundred kHz on all bands, the only resonant element in the system being the antenn

The Icom 718 is one rig that has that ALC overshoot. It was noted in the QST review and my rig showed a 150% overshoot. Possible damage to solid state amplifiers was suggested. So, beware, check it ou

First, thanks for the shout-out my trying to help Bill VanKirk with his N75 problem. He nailed it down to a defective chip and got it going. Second, being the ham that I am, while I'm waiting for the

Hi, I'm Bill Franklin, K5WB, and I've just joined 4SQRP. I've been a ham since 1956, worked in electronics my whole career, and still do it as a hobby. I've made just about every mistake that can be m