Recently, I posted a question to our club’s mailing list regarding a QRN problem I was having. I got several interesting replies…

This has been a year of firsts for me in ham radio. Now I can claim my first ham radio award….

Building the cables for my EchoLink project was, to put it bluntly, a royal pain. To build these cables, I had to find sources for the connectors–including a semi-oddball 8-pin mike connector for my Icom–and then wire it all up. The wiring wasn’t a real problem, but running around for the plugs was a hassle.

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a website that not only carried the connectors, but would also build the cables for you? Being a website developer, I got to thinking about how to go about doing this. It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a web application that would let a ham choose the connectors he or she wants, the type of wire that the cable will use, and then specify the wire list for the cable.

If you read the previous blog entry, you know that I worked some of the DX contest this weekend. Well, after the Saturday afternoon session, I was kind of burned out on CW, so I thought, that I’d tune up the band and see what was happening on SSB….

I hadn’t planned on working the ARRL International CW DX Contest this weekend, but got caught up in the action. I worked a total of about three hours in three separate shifts….

We need ideas!

I participated in the FISTS Winter Sprint yesterday….

The author deliberates on how best to improve his antenna system…

It’s gotten to the point where I’ve worked just most of the active FISTS members on 20m…