I’m a big fan of Michigan Radio. WUOM, WVGR and WFUM are my favorite triumvirate of public radio stations. “Your state, your stories, your NPR news station” is a button on my car radio and a quick link on my smart phone. What do you do if you want to…
Here’s something fun. Play around with circuit design using your favorite browser. Works best with basic circuitry. A good parallel to software solutions like Multisim & PSpice
Band conditions getting you down? Turn to “The Terminator”! Here’s a great article on how to work the Gray Line.
By Scott Westerman “Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… Or they become legend.” ~ Jim Harrison Jim Harrison was, in every sense, an extraordinary Spartan. A Michigan boy, born in Grayling, high schooled down the…
We’ve long maintained that you don’t need a ton of power to be heard and have fun with amateur radio. It’s all about the antenna and band conditions. Here’s a plethora of QRP information as published in CQ Magazine’s classic QRP issue from February of 2014.
A really good piece on participating in the American Radio Relay League’s NPOTA. Not only is NPTOA good practice for an emergency, it also has value for any portable operation or chasing DX. Tips for NPOTA Chasers and Activators
The power for ferrite beads!
Here’s A great article on QRP and how you don’t need a blow torch to light a candle.
Surfers call it shooting the curl, you hit the wave just right and can ride the wild surf through a tube of churning blue water. When conditions are right, even a weak VHF/UHF signal can shoot the curl and pop out hundreds of miles from where it started. This is…
It’s eventually every radio amateur’s dream, to visit the World Headquarters of the American Radio Relay League. I found myself among the towers, beams and dipoles in Newington to congratulate Michigan State University alumnus, Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, who has served the League for nearly 4 decades. On April 19, he…