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• Portable POTA Hunting on a Winter’s Day and Native PSK31 on the Elecraft KX2
  19/01/2025 by Thomas Witherspoon
  This year, we’ve experienced some cold weather and snow at our mountain home—conditions that always seem to arrive on weekends. While we haven’t had any significant snowfall, the 2–4-inch dustings we’ve received have been enough to coat our steep and winding mountain road. Since our road is still undergoing repairs from the damage caused by […]
• 2025 Plans: Less About Goals, More About the Journey
  18/01/2025 by Thomas Witherspoon
  Last week, we recorded an episode of the Ham Radio Workbench podcast. Our main topic was Winter Field Day, but we also discussed our plans for 2025—not just workbench projects but our overall goals and what’s on the calendar. Lately, I’ve been so focused on the present and immediate future (sorting out post-storm property repairs, […]
• A Subtle Shift in My Field Gear: Rethinking the external ATU
  16/01/2025 by Thomas Witherspoon
  This past week, I’ve been revisiting my shack, paring down, and reorganizing. By that, I mean separating the wheat from the chaff and reevaluating my grab-and-go radios and accessories. Before Hurricane Helene (a moment in time I seem to use to benchmark events now), I picked up a few IKEA shelf organizers and was quite […]
• Snow, Sand, and Solar Storms: Tim’s New Year’s Eve Radio Adventure
  15/01/2025 by Thomas Witherspoon
  New Year’s Eve Sand Dune SOTA & POTA by Tim (W8TMI) My wife and I head to Northern Michigan over the New Year’s holiday almost every year. It’s a nice way to wrap up the year and the busy holiday season. Most of our friends and family obligations are met, and we can spend time […]
• Busted Antenna in Jasper Alberta
  14/01/2025 by Vince VE6LK
  As always there are lots of links within the article. Click one! Click them all! Learn all the things! ? by Vince (VE6LK) Ahhhh, the midwinter get-a-way. Everyone does it a bit differently, but for most of us, when you have only a few days and a couple of nights you don’t venture too far […]

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• Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 2501
  A 10-Band Attic Antenna System for Contesting Success, The C Pole – A Ground Independent Vertical Antenna, How to build a 12V emergency power supply , C-Pole Antenna Project, Dipole Bazooka Antenna for 40 meters, HamPass – Contest Score and DX Tools, Amateur Radio Station G0RIF, AWF electronics components, W7PXL Valley Radio Club
• The Best Amateur Radio Links of 2024
  A collection of the best new amateur radio links we reviewed during the 2024
• Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 2449
  Amateur Radio World Map, Building a Rotatable Flag Antenna for Small Lots, Vertical Delta Loops Antennas, Transitioning from W7IUV to Waller Flag Antenna Designs, Trap Dipole for 17, 12 and 6 Metre Amateur Bands, SO2R Speaker and Paddle Switching, Intermittent receiver issues in the TS-590s,
• Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 2448
  Squirrel Cannon AKA Spud Gun , Guide to Antenna Modeling with NEC by W4RNL, Exploring Linux HF Packeteering with Direwolf and QtTermTCP, Optimized 40-Meter Delta Loop Beam Antenna, SuperFox Code Verification Site, Kenwood TS-520S at RigPix,
• Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 2447
  Current consumption for various HF Rigs, Using a SDR as a RFI Site Survey Tool, Coil64 Inductance Coil Calculator, The Porch Loop a small receiving loop , Going Full-Circle with a Kenwood TS-520S, Adding an external keypad to the K3, VK9CV Cocos Keeling DXpedition