I don’t know how I managed to do it, but I have the highest Google ranking when you search for “amateur radio blog” or “ham radio blog.” Here are the next five:

• KB1EFZ
• N2IJ
• K8ZRH
• K7ON

While I’m still seriously considering putting up a a beam, I’m having a fair amount of success with my simple ground plane antenna. The biggest problem with the ground plane, though, is that I’m limited to a single band–20m–and if 10m is open, there’s no way for me to get on. It’s also not a very robust installation; this is something I’m going to have to do something about sooner or later….

Who says hams aren’t a bunch of animals? In the morning, I worked W3BEE, and in the afternoon, I heard W1HEN in a QSO. I tried to contact W1HEN when his QSO ended, but he flew the coop too quickly.

For my next trick, I want to work W0DOG, W1DOG, W5DOG, W6DOG, W7DOG, W8DOG, and W9DOG.

The guys I really pity, though are W2ASS and W5ASS.

If I was serious about DXing, I’d probably go out and buy a big linear and put a ten-element Yagi up on a 50-foot tower. I’m not all that serious about DX, though; I’m more of a casual DXer….

In searching for the e-mail address of a guy I just worked, I happened upon a couple of cool ham sites that I’d never visited before…

SWR creep induces yours truly to dig out the ice chipper…

Last fall, when I put up the 20m ground plane antenna, I honestly meant for it to be only a temporary installation…..