Ham Radio Portable Insights: Customizing N3FJP’s AC Log for POTA
Hello again! I’d like to share some tips and tricks I’ve found for customizing AC Log. Most are in the instructions for the software, but some aren’t—some I’ve found by […]
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Cable & Coax Tech
DX Engineering Custom Cable Builder—The No-Hassle Way to Get the Precise Coax for Your Station
It’s the fast, easy, and convenient way of upgrading your station’s coaxial cables. There are many aspects of amateur radio that pose significant challenges—learning CW or increasing your WPM speed, […]
Field Day
Ham Radio Portable Insights: How POTA Prepares Us for Field Day
Every June, we’re reminded of how much Parks On The Air® (POTA) and ARRL Field Day have in common. If you’ve participated in Field Day, chances are you’ve applied skills […]
Technical Articles
Gray Line: The Twilight Zone of Radio Propagation
Imagine for a moment that you’re sitting in your ham shack, coffee in one hand and microphone in the other. It’s either just before sunrise or just after sunset, and […]
Technical Articles
Ham Radio Tech: Mobile Radio Installation Tips
A DX Engineering customer/technical support specialist looks back at his mobile radio installation that is still going strong nine years later. *** Since my early days of playing with CB […]
Antenna Tech / Technical Articles
Ham Radio Portable Insights: A Linked Dipole for POTA Activations
Activating a park can be a lot of fun. My Yaesu FT-891 and ATAS-120A Auto Active Tuning Antenna have done very well for me the last few years. But there […]
Technical Articles
Are EMPs a Real Threat to Ham Radios?
When someone mentions electromagnetic pulses (EMPs), we conjure visions of nukes, terrorists, Starfish Prime, and Armageddon. Would your ham radio be in danger? Statistically, your radio is more likely to […]
Technical Articles
Ham Radio Tech: What Does a Common-Mode Choke Do?
You’re hosting a party and someone arrives who probably wouldn’t have made your invite list. Maybe someone brought them along, your XYL said you had to invite them, or they asked […]
Antenna Tech
Take Advantage of 6 Meter Season: Learn What 6-Meter Antennas Other Hams Are Using
Hams have described 6-meter operating the same way Forrest Gump waxed folksily about life’s parallels to a box of chocolates: “You never know what you’re going to get.” OnAllBands blogger […]
Field Day
Field Day Gear Part 4: Headsets & Headphones
There is a long list of amateur radio sayings that veteran operators often recite to new hams, but none is truer than this one: You can’t work ’em if you […]
