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20 and 40 meters were hopping this afternoon. Of course the North American QSO Party had the bands jamming, plus the Light House crew was up and running today as well, but if you could get away from all the contest QRM, there were a few DX contacts to be had. I made 4 U.S. contacts, and 1...

An absolute legend in modern music, an incredible guitar player, inventor of one of the most famous model solid body electric guitars, and multi-track recording..... Les Paul passed away today at the age of 94, I never got the chance to see him perform live, but have heard a lot of his music...

Trying out my new Memorial salute to one of my music heros... Rest in Peace Les.....

My last Dx contact was on June 2nd on 20 meters to South Germany, haven't hit a decent band opening since.... Finally today 20 meters showed a couple windows of opportunity, while twisting the big knob I heard a station from Italy calling CQ Dx North America, I responded and made contact with...

Last Friday we lost power for 4 hours due to a severe thunder storm, had to resort to finishing out the activated Skywarn net on a 5 watt HT which wasn't making the repeater full quieting. Got a 12 volt car battery under the bench now, ran a cable to where the 12 volt terminal block is located...

Checked into the Ozark Mountain D-Star net this evening.....(it's held every Sunday night starting at 9:00 pm Eastern time zone).... Quite interesting, the net control this evening was on a DV Dongle out of Texas, and several check-in's were coming in from Australia, with a few from Japan...

At great risk to my testicles....(that is when the wife see's UPS deliver the package)....I went ahead and ordered a new Icom ID-880H Dual Band D-Star radio, and an Alpha-Delta surge protector..... The ID-800H I purchased for OEM will be leaving my shack by the end of the week, the Uniden VHF...

To start with, I wasn't all that happy with the installation of my 2 meter radio in the Jeep Liberty. When I did this my main concern was to "not" drill any holes through the body since this vehicle is only a couple years old. Because of this approach the antenna was mounted up front, low, and...

Since I'm real close to having my credit card completely cleaned, I was going to wait on ordering an Icom ID-800H for myself. Since I've been learning this D-Star thing on the one I got for our OEM, and I already know how to program it, coupled with the fact that HRO has had them on sale for...

I've been watching the TV offer for the Eco-Canteen for a while now, seeing that it might be a good alternative to bottled water I decided to jot down the 800 number, and give them a call, I will now relate to you what this scam entails..... Now the add on TV informs you that you get the adult...

A couple weeks back during a severe thunder storm, my random wire antenna broke. This morning I slapped together a new one, it's a little shorter than the original, but I did that to try and keep it out of the foliage. Evidently I hit on a bad length, the original would tune up great on 75/80...

Hope everyone here at WWRF has a happy, healthy, and safe 4th of July.... Be careful this weekend.....

Now that we have our VHF/UHF dual band digital transceiver for our OEM, our next goal will be 3 or 4 HT's. Since our County OEM is really pushing D-Star, we will be getting D-Star HT's as well. I'm recommending we go with the IC-92AD over the other two models for the following reasons...

Not only is it the first full day of summer, and father's day....... It's also the big Father's Day Give-a-way day......:thumbup: Good luck to all the other fathers, and may the best man......(hopefully me)......wins.....:D

I have an older solid state Kenwood TS-130S, haven't really played much on 12, 15 or 17 meters, but on 20, 40, and 80 meters, with everything well in tune, and going by the meter on my MFJ-949C tuner, my out put will peak from 60 to 80 watts. As soon as I go to 10 meters, and I've checked this...

Until now I haven't seen any real benefit to spending the extra money and investing in this D-Star digital mode of operation. It has been around this area for a while, and seems to be growing in popularity, but even at that, good old analog FM has got me to where I want or need to go.... Now...

Spent most of the day changing around and re-arranging antennas here. Got my hands on another Shakespeare Super Big Stick, put it up on a section of 10' heavy gauge galvanized fence post, putting the bottom of the antenna approx 18 feet off the ground. A single ground wire connected to a ground...

Shakespeare Marine Antennas Specifications: Shakespeare 5300 SSB In my never ending search to find a seashore friendly fiberglass vertical HF antenna, I stumbled onto this model from Shakespeare Marine. The Suggested retail price is $644.95 however it probably can be had for $300.00 or...

This kinds goes hand in hand with the other post concerning wire types used for dipole antennas..... When I got my TS-130S back in early February the first antenna I hung was my 20 meter dipole. In March I pulled it down and re-built it with heavier wire and a better built center insulator /...

An old Ham once told me..."the stock rubber duck antenna that comes on any HT is nothing more than a dummy load that radiates"..... That really became apparent yesterday afternoon during a severe thunder storm and a Skywarn activation. With some serious lightning dancing around I decided to...