by kb9vbr | Sep 7, 2020 | Parks on the Air
We spent a long weekend camping in the Duluth/Superior area at Amnicon Falls State Park in Wisconsin. What better place than to do a Parks on the Air activation for K-1436 than near of the shores of lake Superior. Thank you to everyone that participated in this event....
by kb9vbr | Sep 2, 2020 | weather
There are several tools that I rely on as we’re enjoying the great outdoors to stay safe during changing weather conditions. Links/Products Mentioned: National Weather Service Mobile Site: http://mobile.weather.gov Radarscope: http://radarscope.app Repeater...
by kb9vbr | Aug 12, 2020 | Ham Radio Q and A
Part of my strategy for my recent ARRL Field Day participation was to run digital with my Yaesu FT-891. The plan was to operate FT-8 and also decode the ARRL bulletin and potentially send some radiograms via Winlink. Unfortunately I had issues with Winlink so that...
by kb9vbr | Jul 14, 2020 | Ham Radio Q and A
First off‚ did everyone have a great Field Day? I know after getting home and reading comments online and in forums that there is a bit of grumbling about the 1D or home stations on commercial power. There certainly as a large amount of activity from big home stations...
by kb9vbr | Jul 9, 2020 | Operating Events
This year’s ARRL Field Day adventure had me camping in the Flambeau River State Forest located in Northwestern Wisconsin and running as a 1-Bravo station. Flambeau River State Forest is K-4349 so all contacts will also receive Parks on the Air credit. The...
by kb9vbr | Jul 7, 2020 | Antennas
For this year’s ARRL Field Day event I was looking to put up a homebrew antenna that was easy to construct‚ easy to deplay‚ and give me multi-band support. I settled on an 80 meter Off Center Fed Dipole antenna. Watch the video to see how I do it: The OCF or Off...
by Michael Martens | Jun 24, 2020 | News
— July 7‚ 2020 — I’ve pretty much ridden the wave of new amateur radio operators getting on the air and sales have tapered off to a more manageable level. Normal turnaround is 1-2 business days. The 6 meter antenna usually ships in 3-4 days. The...
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...
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