by Michael Martens | May 12, 2020 | Sale
The 4th Annual Scratch and Dent sale starts on Friday May 15 at 8:00am CDT. At that time the links to the sale purchase page will be active and you can shop for an antenna. Quantities are limited so please be advised that when they are gone, they are gone. I take a...
by Michael Martens | Mar 16, 2020 | Ham Radio Q and A
First off I’d like to welcome all the new subscribers to the channel. In the last week we picked up over 600 new viewers‚ which is a nice little boost. Thanks for joining the channel. As a recap for all the new subscribers‚ every month I pick through the emails and...
by Michael Martens | Mar 10, 2020 | VHF
Gigaparts broke the news last week of a new mobile radio coming from Yaseu. The FTM-300DR is a dual band mobile transceiver with Yaesu’s C4FM system fusion digital mode built it. At this time it’s difficult to tell if the FTM-300 will be a replacement of the FT-400 or...
by Michael Martens | Mar 2, 2020 | Amateur Radio
The memory bank feature of the Yaesu FT2DR/FT3DR handheld radio is a powerful method to organize your channels. In this video I take you through the steps of setting up the memory banks in your radio. Viewer Swede Bloodfist asks the following question: Thanks for this...
by Michael Martens | Feb 19, 2020 | Ham Radio Q and A
It’s February so we’re half way through winter. The days are getting longer and the sun warmer. In no time I’ll be pulling the trailer out of the garage and planning some outdoor adventures. In the meantime I’ll have to contend with indoor operations. Please stay...
by Michael Martens | Feb 6, 2020 | Antennas
Last weekend we received one of many of the winter storms we usually get this time of year. This one dumped about 6 inches of snow on us. So when I posted a picture of my Wolf River Coil in the backyard with the snow creeping up to it‚ Andy asked the following...
by Michael Martens | Jan 20, 2020 | APRS
Long time watchers of the channel know that APRS or the Automated Position Reporting System is a regular subject of mine. I’ve been an active participant in the APRS field for almost as long as I’ve been a ham‚ so I’ve seen quite a bit of changes over the years....
by Michael Martens | Jan 8, 2020 | Ham Radio Q and A
Thank’s for joining me on my annual countdown of the best amateur radio videos of 2019. This past year has again seen some tremendous growth to this channel with almost one million views‚ 65 thousand hours of videos watched and over 11‚000 new subscribers added. But I...
by Michael Martens | Dec 23, 2019 | Product Focus
Winter is just around the corner so I set my Wolf River coil Silver Bullet 1000 in the backyard. The leaves on the tree are gone and soon this spot will be filled in with snow- so its a great spot to set up a vertical antenna. No one will bother it until March or...
by Michael Martens | Dec 9, 2019 | Product Focus
Last week over the thanksgiving holiday my son was home from school. as I was retrieving the mail I spotted a catalog and said “Oh Look it’s the Christmas wish book” Boy did his eyes light up and wanted to see what I was talking about. I then showed him the Ham Radio...
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