ZS6EZ visits SZ1A for the CQ World Wide DX Contest
Copyright © 2024 Chris R. Burger ZS6EZ – All rights reserved. A more comprehensive version of this story appeared in the March edition of Practical Wireless. Planning During 2023, I started wondering whether it […]
How To Build a Rotator Controller with a Computer Interface
The Problem Very often we have seen a rotator control interface for a computer. They are usually quite expensive and we convince ourselves that we do not need it. Only those who have used it, […]
Ham Radio Bandplan for SDR#
Most people and ham radio colleagues who have been using SDR Receivers already know, and probably are familiar, with SDR SHARP – SDR# software [1]. It is one of the most capable and professional software […]
What’s the best wire for a dipole? (video)
By Ian VK3BUF – Published in the September 2021 Edition of QTC As long as radio has existed there have been wire antennas. These have been made from a diverse range of conductive materials. Often […]
How Tough Are Ferrites? (video)
By Ian Jackson VK3BUF. The original article was published in QTC January-March 2021. Earlier in 2020 QRM Guru published an article to answer a few common questions on ferrite materials. It looked at budget versus […]
TEN Easy Steps To Etch Your Own Quality Circuit Board – PCB (video)
Many of us have tried to make our own board for our favorite project. Unfortunately, most do not get the desired results. Usually, our board will need a lot of work to become functional. We’ll […]
Building a 4-Element Yagi Antenna for the 6m Band
An email and a phone call with my friend Kostas SV1DPI were enough to convince me to share with you my experiences on building an antenna for 50MHz, hoping to motivate you and help you […]
Lightning Protection of an Amateur Radio Station
Is there really a danger of “the sky falling on our heads”? Lightning protection of our station and our house is always a move in the right direction. Let’s see how it is done and […]
How-To Easily Measure Unwanted RF
Recently I have noticed that there is a lot of interest in the amateur radio community regarding baluns-chokes with ferrites, the placement of which is intended to reduce returned and unwanted RF. Introduction Most of […]
How-To Install Hamclock on Ubuntu 20
Hamclock is a handy application able to show: accurate time, world map & time zone, solar activity, sunrise and sunset times (grey line), DX Cluster Spots, Beam heading & Maidenhead Grid Locators, Northern California DX […]