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Category Archives: Stations
HF Mobile on a recumbent tricycle
This is Rem, K6BBQ, on his HF recumbent tricycle mobile with San Francisco Bay in the background.
Looks like a lot of fun – and that salt water is right there for good signals. Now if we could just get some sunspots…
Scot, K9JY
New LZ9W M/M Web Site Updated
Pretty snazzy set-up on the web site, including pictures of the shots from the QTH to various parts of the world.
There’s lots more room for content, but right now you can get a good look at the place…including the pool!
Here’s the site address.
Scot, K9JY
Photos of W1AW/9 at K9SD in Action
Always fun to see pictures of hams operating. Here’s a great set compiled by Kyle, WA4PGM, of W1AW/9 in action during the 2008 IARU Contest.
Hat tip: KI9A.
Scot, K9JY
Station Layout — Where to put stuff
I’m working from home today and, enjoying a bit of the nice weather, I spend a good part of my lunch hour looking over my (small) back yard and figured out where I was going to re-install my vertical.
Some of you know that with this house I have not had a radio station up [...]
De-clutter that shack
A shack and clutter go together, don’t they? Well, I don’t know about you, but every time I go to the back of the table to work on something, the wires there have seemed to multiply — and interweave themselves — all the time.
Jeff, KE9V, suggested this site in an e-mail: http://decluttered.com. And it’s a [...]
Blowing in the Wind
For most of my ham career, I’ve had this saying of “reliability first” and then the rest will follow.
Essentially, you can’t be on the air contesting, chasing DX or supporting your local emergency agencies if your equipment and antennas are not working.
In my experience, things usually break when we don’t pay attention to the details [...]
Radio Arkala Rocks
I’m biased towards big antennas — knowing how incredibly difficult they are to maintain. But show me a big ham radio station for contesting and I’m there.
Today one of the reflectors I belong to provided this link to Radio Arkala, the contest station by OH6KN and OH8NC. I’ll tempt you with just [...]
