CHOTA 2025 is nigh! 20M US-UK calling frequency at top of each hour: 14.247MHz Here in the U.S., Churches and Chapels on the Air is a new concept. I was fortunate to play a leading role a couple of years ago in herding a few cats on this side of the pond to get on […]
Author’s Preface: I have revised my inductor coil table numbers and the narrative text pertaining to it. Clint KA7OEI posted a comment on the syndicated version at AmateurRadio.com. He questioned my Q estimates for the JPC-7 coil, based on his own tests as well as the very low numbers I reported. I owe Clint a […]
If this kind of personal nostalgia article triggers you, consider watching some cat videos on Youtube instead. If you were fortunate enough to attend college, think about what you were involved in while there. You could have been an athlete, but the sports team was likely already there when you got your uniform. You could […]
If you’re a workbench ham, you like to measure things. Some like to just get a rough cut while others like to be “nuts” about it. There are groups, like Volt-Nuts and Time-Nuts, who focus more on what’s formally called Metrology. Me? I’m somewhere in the middle but tending toward more precise and reliable measurements, […]