The highly requested paper clip installment of Will It Antenna. Where I try and make ham radio antennas out of common household items. Today, the worst example of an antenna I have ever made.
Antenna
Status QUAD: 2/4/5 StQ 7- 2 elements 40/30 – 4 elements 20/17/15 – 5 elements 12/10
Horizontal and elements rod kit On the models with 4 and more elements, we use an horizontal tie-rods kit, to prevent bending in the horizontal plane…. Read more
Vertical Antenna 8 bands trapped (10-12-15-17-20-30-40-80m) with wire radials 1/4 lambda for each one band.
10-40m Full bands coverage. 80m about 120Kc/s RF chocke for electrostatic protection. 2 KW pep SO239 Technical specifications: Height: 11.3 m approxim… Read more
Tuner free directional HF Multiband Field Expedient Antenna kit
Description: This 10-80 Meter Multiband FEA (Field Expedient Antenna) Kit enables you to customize your Alpha Multiband HF Antenna. The kit can then b… Read more
Antenna Yagi MB8 15-20 Separate Feed line – MomoBeam
The MB8 15-20 SF is a fullsize antenna for 14 MHz and 21 MHz. No traps or adapting systems where used to obtain fantastic performances and the best ba… Read more
2/2 (4) element 7/10MHz Yagi (3.9m) Force12 Antennas
Force12 Antennas – A super-compact dualband 7/10MHz WARC band Yagi with single feedpoint The 4-LFAR-40/30, an Excellent super-compact Du… Read more
Review
Review of new SDRplay RSPdx Software-Defined Radio
The SDRplay RSPdx is a single-tuner wideband full featured 14-bit SDR which covers the entire RF spectrum from 1kHz to 2GHz giving up to 10MHz of spec… Read more
RFinder B1 Android DMR Radio Unboxing and Initial Setup – RFinder Repeater Directory
RFinder B1 HT Radio, Android DMR and FM This is the device that you have been waiting for! The RFinder B1 is now available for pre-order. Imagine a d… Read more
Measures The Loss In Coax Connectors and 100 Feet of RG8X by W6LG
Jim W6LG uses a signal generator and a panadapter to measure the loss in 30 coax connectors at 14 and 52 mhz down to a fraction of a db. You might be… Read more
Unboxing the BITX40 SSB QRP 40-Meter Kig
“I learned about the BitX-40 from Randy, K7AGE’s unboxing video and immediately placed an order. It arrived today a few weeks after I plac… Read more
Equipment
Omnia SDR Basic
The Omnia SDR Basic is a reintroduced Peaberry V2 by permission from David Turnbull (AE9RB). The Peaberry SDR V2 is a Software Defined Radio transceiv… Read more
New Dual Inline Module – GAP Antenna
The new GAP Dual In-Line DSP noise eliminating module provides two channel/stereo noise cancellation, and is suitable for use on all radios and receiv… Read more
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W-SDRX1 High Performance SDR Receiver
The W-SDRX1 is a super wide-band USB SDR Receiver which offers incredible performance across its operating range of 100KHz to 2GHz. It has two antenna… Read more
News
100 Inexpensive Paper Clips – Will It Antenna?
The highly requested paper clip installment of Will It Antenna. Where I try and make ham radio antennas out of common household items. Today, the wors… Read more
FCC Grants ARRL Rules Waiver Request for Fire Emergencies, Hurricanes
The FCC has granted ARRL’s request for a temporary waiver to permit amateur data transmissions at a higher symbol rate than currently permitted by sec… Read more
Hurricane Watch Net Wraps Up Marathon Activation for Two Storms
The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) just stood down from another extended session — 71 hours of continuous operation — for Hurricane Paulette and Hurricane… Read more
FIRST CUBESAT SATELLITE DEVELOPED BY BRAZILIAN COMPANY FINISHES ENVIRONMENTAL TESTS
The Engineering Model, the first development model, of the NANOMIRAX / CRON-1 nanosatellite carried out its environmental testing campaign at the Inte… Read more
Marconi Day Award
Marconi Day Award The Calabria DX Team has once again organized Marconi Day and Award for the second year. The following accredited stations… Read more
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