YouTube really is amazing. Search for just about anything on YouTube, and you’ll find short videos on the topic. Ham radio is no exception. Here are a few of the more offbeat ones:

Twilight Zone: Why Amateur Radio is Bad. This is a clip from a Twilight Zone episode titled “Black Leather Jackets.”
Ham Radio Set. There’s [...]

Boy, the last two nights on 40m the propagation has been pretty bleak. The skip was long and the signals weak. Even so, I managed to scratch out three Qs, including:

WB6TMY, Eureka CA
K0ASE, Lamesa TX
AA1IK/P, Old Town FL

I only managed one contact the night before. Let’s hope propagation is better this evening.

Our club needs a new banner, so I’ve come up with the design below. I’m not much of a designer, but I don’t think this is so bad. I’m also happy to get some suggestions. Fire away.
btw, I’m obviously using an unregistered copy of the drawing program I used to created this. It’s a [...]

Sunday night, I was tuning around 30m and heard 3B7C calling. I was going to call them just to see if he could hear me, but since I’d already worked him on 30m, I decided not to. Except for the pileup, 30m was dead, so I switched bands to 40m.
There, I happened to hear 3B7C [...]

Planet Analog, an electronics industry trade magazine provides this two-part article on grounding for lightning protection:

Part I
Part II

Here’s something I found on an electronics trade magazine website:

I wonder if they have any hams working there?

This from Brian KB9BVN via the qrp-l.org mailing list:
This afternoon I have been sitting at my desk doing book work for a couple of classes I am taking, so I fired up the K2 and turned it to my favorite 40m frequency and heard nothing…so I left it there while I was working. About a [...]

BoingBoing has an item on CB QSL cards, citing them as an example of “folk art.” I must admit that some of them are kind of interesting. Every once in a while, I’ll get a ham QSL card that looks like these, but they’re rare. I wonder what percentage of CB cards were homemade?
GNOSIS, [...]

There’s a Greenback Dollar Store here in Ann Arbor that I visit from time to time. The reason I like this store is that, in addition to the usual cheap cookies and toiletries with odd labels, this store often has things that are useful in the ham shack.
Yesterday, for example, I picked up the following:

50-ft. [...]

Saturday, we once again operated from the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. I was happy to see that the antennas tuned up quite nicely again on both 40m and 20m, although the reception was still kind of noisy. All in all, we made eleven contacts, all on 40m.
The attendance was a bit sparse, but that was [...]