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Are the bands too quiet?

By wa0tda on Friday, October 23, 2020

Many of the HF phone bands have been depopulated during non-contest times. The FT8 frequencies are quite active. VHF/UHF repeaters are dead quiet most days. DMR can support a lot of activity, but is mostly quiet. Even a “busy” talkgroup like 3100 is quiet for hours on end. HF CW activity is also down, but …

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Check out 30 meters!

By wa0tda on Monday, September 7, 2020

The 30 meter band became available to USA Amateur Radio operators in the early 1980s, so why didn’t I know anything about it? Well, to be fair, I did know that our real estate of 10.100–10.150 MHz was next door to the oft-used time standard station WWV on 10 MHz. I also knew that there was …

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A surprising hack to a vertical antenna

By wa0tda on Friday, April 12, 2019

Out in the back yard, far from the house and all the neighboring houses, is my Butternut HF9V vertical HF antenna. It’s ground-mounted and fed with underground 50 ohm coaxial hard line. There’s a three foot high wooden fence surrounding the base to keep dogs and critters at bay. Three UV-resistant Dacron rope guys run …

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We need more HF operators!

By wa0tda on Friday, April 12, 2019

We need more HF ops! Tune across the HF bands anytime but a contest weekend and you’ll hear plenty of nothing – unless you happen upon the FT8 frequencies – they always seem to have activity. Even so, there’s plenty of empty real estate, and even the CW portions of the bands seems wanting these …

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By wa0tda on Thursday, April 11, 2019
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