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...
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...
J-Pole Antennas: Why the Feed Point Matters

J-Pole Antennas: Why the Feed Point Matters

A viewer asks why I solder my solder the feed point connection on my J-Pole Antennas with the center feed going to the short side of the antenna. I take you through the reasons why this is a better way to do it. Transcript: Keith’s got a question about the feed...