Month: July 2024
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Sounds Like Star Wars!
A friend of mine heard my HF radio the other day and said it sounded just like the final battle scene against the Death Star in Star Wars. I said no, Star wars final battle scene against the Death Star sounded just like HF radio. I always respected George Lucas for that little detail.
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Antenna Perfection, A Never Ending Quest!
I’m forever on a quest to improve my antenna. At the moment my antenna is down while the landlord is carrying out improvements to the grounds. While it’s down I’m going to carry out some substantial changes. At the moment I’m running a 29′ end fed random wire. One end is attached to a loop…
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A Place To Battle Demons
On the 1st January 2024 this place was a pile of papers, clothes, junk and general chaos. burred at the bottom was my laptop that hadn’t been powered up for 2 years. That’s a bad sign for a retired technical manager. It reflected my life. I have battled demons and I still battle demons. Quite…
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Gscan II Mobile Scanner Antenna
I picked up this new Gscan II antenna yesterday. The intension it to pop it in the car and stick it on the roof when I go out and about to see what I can pick up. I’m as big believer in getting an antenna outside of the car rather than using one screwed to…
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HF Was Just Alive This Weekend!
There has been some sort of big time HF competition on over the past weekend and it looked like everyone and their best friend came to the party. I switched on the radio at around midnight on Saturday and all of the HF bands were buzzing with Voice and CW calls all night long. 20…
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Handheld Antennas – High SWR
I have an use a small collection of alternative antennas on my Icom ID-51 and Yaesu FT-5D to hopefully improve RX and TX over the standard rubber antennas that come supplied with the radios as standard. When I’m at home and running the Zum Hotspot I don’t want a big cumbersome antenna so I attach…