Articles written by: Wayne KE8JFW

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Products & Product Reviews

New Product Rundown: Fresh Offerings from Hi-Z, Icom, DX Engineering, and EA4TX

OnAllBands is pleased to present these new products and packages recently added to DX Engineering’s ever-expanding offerings: Hi-Z Antenna Three Element V2 Triangular Receive Array System These systems let you […]

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Products & Product Reviews

Holiday Gifts for Hams 2020: Geochron Digital Atlas 4K

If you want to give a holiday gift that will remind your favorite Ham just how generous you are (and how special they are), you can’t go wrong with the […]

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Photo Galleries

It’s All in the Cards! QSL Cards from Greenland

Editor’s Note: Every month, DX Engineering features QSL cards from our team members’ personal collections. To highlight upcoming DXpeditions, we’ll be displaying a few of our favorite cards along with […]

Products & Product Reviews

New Product Showcase: 2M-microBEAM Antenna from COMPACtenna

COMPACtenna antennas are for Hams who have big ideas about what they’d like to accomplish in small spaces. The company’s lineup up of multi-band antennas (and new 2M-only antenna—see below), […]

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Products & Product Reviews

Ferrite—An inexpensive Way for Hams to Improve Their Time on Air (Part 2): DX Engineering High Impedance Common Mode RF Choke Kits

It’s no secret that common mode RF riding on the outside shield of a feedline is a super-villain to Hams, causing interference, tuning problems, erroneous meter readings, and distortion or […]

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Products & Product Reviews

Holiday Gifts for Hams 2020: Headphones and Headsets

Selecting the right pair of headphones or the ideal headset is as personal a choice as finding shoes that fit or a recliner that comfortably accommodates your posterior. One Ham’s […]

Amateur Radio News

DX Engineering Equipment Supports the Expansion of the Reverse Beacon Network

DX Engineering ARAV4-1P Active Vertical Receive Antennas are being used as part of an effort to add 15 “nodes” to the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN)—a global system of software-defined radio […]

Events

Spartan Sprint Offers QRPers Fast Fun Once a Month

For QRP fans and outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy finding better ways to “do more with less,” the Adventure Radio Society’s (ARS) Spartan Sprint is right up your alley. Held the […]

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Products & Product Reviews

Ferrite—An Inexpensive Way for Hams to Improve Their Time on Air (Part 1): DX Engineering Color-Coded Ferrite RF Noise Reduction Kits

We’ve talked a great deal in OnAllBands about the benefits of using selected mixes of ferrite toroids and beads to block and dissipate RF currents—a technique for suppressing radio frequency […]

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Holiday Gifts for Hams 2020: Shortwave and Internet Radios

Some of my earliest memories of radio take me back to my bedroom in Akron, Ohio, a small, cheap Panasonic hidden under my pillow, the smooth sounds of Cleveland baseball […]