Perhaps our British members might be able to verify if this is how the BBC's roving radio detection vans would locate people who hadn't paid their radio license fees? I've seen pictures of these vans,

Welcome, Pam! Hope to work you on the air someday! 73, Gwen, NG3P

From the consensus here, I think I'll make myself another full-sized W3EDP End-fed and try that next time I go operate at the park. It'll have to be when the parks are actually OPEN again, as the rece

It's interesting that you mention W3EDP antennas, Joshua. I have one as my main wire on my home station right now. I love the design, and it seems to work really well for me. I haven't used one portab

I made a simple linked dipole for 40/30/20 that deploys easily and mostly doesn't need any additional tuning. I have it set to the CW portion of the bands, so if I'm up on the top end of the phone por

Don, I haven't tried using my Ozark Patrol with a separate TX because a) I didn't think of that, and b) I don't have a separate TX that isn't also an RX! Maybe I'll try it if I build the Michigan Migh

I use the Talentcell 8300mAh 12/9/5v battery pack, Richard. I got it from Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01337QXMA There's also an 11000mAh pack available on that page that I've been

There's a lot of good books on electronics, many of which focus on RF circuits, but here's the list from my own library: The Art of Electronics, by Paul Horowitz. This one is very pricy, but very comp

I did try to check in on 40m, but could just BARELY hear someone. I think it was net control, so I sent my call a couple of times when things went quiet. I didn't hear my call coming back, then things

My experience is that the antenna tuning can affect the sidetone for some reason. Gwen, NG3P

Or get a ThumbDV and plug it into a USB port on your computer. I have one plugged into a powered hub on a Raspberry Pi, hooked into my home network, running AMBEServer. With some dynamic DNS jiggery-p

I'm fond of my Dremel 2000-01 VersaTip. It's a bit larger than most, but it has a very comfortable grip, LOTS of fuel capacity, and gets easily hot enough to solder coax connectors! I use it where I c

In CW Academy, one of the instructors shared a document on ham radio operating ethics. It's more up to date than the "novice accent" article -- which was also shared -- and is probably far more accura

Actually...infotainment IS in the dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infotainment Gwen, NG3P

Oh, there's a Yahoogroup, too. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TenTec506Rebel/info?guccounter=1

Craig, it looks like I was right. There's code out there to add a keyer to the radio's firmware. The Rebel mailing list is probably worth joining, and there's a modified codebase for it over on Github

Given it's Arduino-based, I wonder if there might be a sketch that could be added to the existing codebase for it to add keyer capability? There's a number of Arduino-based keyer sketches out there, b

Dale...I believe it's called a "QCX". At least, that's what I built. ;) 73, Gwen, NG3P

Looking forward to it!

I'm interested in this little gem myself. I like having multiple options, and like building radios! 73, Gwen, NG3P