by Michael Martens | Dec 21, 2018 | Ham Radio Q and A
Every month I comb through the comments of my videos for the best questions. This month there was a bevy, so let’s just jump headfirst into the. My video on the Subaru Outback ham radio install generated a lot of questions and comments. Both on Outback owners...
by Michael Martens | Nov 12, 2018 | Ham Radio Q and A
Wow, a lot of things are happening on this channel, we’ve just passed the 10,000 subscriber mark and and picking up about 50 new subscribers a day. Thank you so much for the support, I really appreciate it. I also appreciate the intelligent comments and great...
by Michael Martens | Oct 10, 2018 | Ham Radio Q and A
APRS, Buying used gear, and those illegal baofeng radios. I’ll dig into all of these and more in the October Your Questions Answered. I’ve had a lot of new viewers and subscribers of late, so for the benefit of everyone, every month I’ll crawl through all the...
by Michael Martens | Sep 7, 2018 | Ham Radio Q and A
I’m sure this has happened to you. You have a Baofeng handheld radio like the UV-5R and you set it down. The radio promptly falls over. If the radio has the extended length antenna, it’s even worse. The radios are so lightweight, that they just don’t want to stay put....
by Michael Martens | Sep 4, 2018 | Ham Radio Q and A
Last month I was celebrating hitting the 5,000 subscriber mark on the KB9VBR Antennas Youtube Channel and in the 30 days since then, we picked up another 2,500. Thank you for the explosive growth and welcome to all the new viewers. I really appreciate the support. In...
by Michael Martens | Aug 31, 2018 | Ham Radio Q and A
I’m a bit of a 220 aficionado, but decent 220 equipment can be hard to come by. The 1.25 meter band has some unique properties, blending the propagation advantages of the 2 meter and 70cm bands. So 220 radios and repeater systems tend to have better range and coverage...
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