Winter Field Day 2026: Extreme Cold Edition

Winter Field Day 2026: Extreme Cold Edition

I’ve been doing Winter Field Day, give or take, for about 10 years. There’s been a couple years when I had other things going on and couldn’t participate, and one year the where there was so much snow that we couldn’t get into the cabin we were...
Did I Just Break the Radio? A Winter POTA Rove

Did I Just Break the Radio? A Winter POTA Rove

Between Christmas and New Years typically affords us a bit of down time and this video is our third annual holiday POTA rove. Putting a string of new parks together is getting a bit more difficult as we’ve pretty much done everything within an hours drive of...
The Rybakov Antenna Gets a Serious Upgrade

The Rybakov Antenna Gets a Serious Upgrade

My first real exposure to the Rybakov antenna was back about two years ago. I was playing with the Chameleon URT-1 remote tuner and needed a portable vertical to demonstrate the tuner’s usefulness. I ended up combining the Chameleon 17 foot whip with the...
Koss SB40 Headset: Best Bang for the Buck

Koss SB40 Headset: Best Bang for the Buck

I’m a long time Heil Headset user. I love the fit of the BM-17 dual side headset and it has served me well for many, many years. But that model was discontinued last year and a replacement is not yet available. I’ve gotten countless requests on what is a...
The man who invented the Supercomputer

The man who invented the Supercomputer

Growing up in the 1980’s, I was a bit of a computer nerd, and at the time I had an intense fascination in supercomputers. I remember reading about these pieces of big iron solving the most complex problems of the day. Little did I know, at the time, the...
The BEST Ham Radio Videos of 2025

The BEST Ham Radio Videos of 2025

I’ve been making annual top ten lists of my videos for many years. I find it really interesting, when I crunch the numbers, which ones resonant with the audience and which ones don’t. Sometimes I know when I have ‘lightning in a bottle’ and...