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New Products Spotlight: Lido Mounts

Lido Mounts offers a wide array of no-holes-needed mobile mounting options for hands-free devices, receivers, microphones, and more. From cup holder mounts, grip vent mounts, and suction cup mounts to […]

CU7MD Ham Radio QSL Card from Azores
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It’s All in the Cards! QSL Cards from the Azores

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 details […]

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Technical Articles

Making the CI-V Connection

CI-V stands for Computer Interface V (V representing the Roman numeral for 5 ). This is Icom’s name for its rig interface to a computer or to another rig. Other […]

Sangean portable broadcast world band radios
Products & Product Reviews

New Products Spotlight: Weather Stations and World-Band Portable Radio 

Many hams are surprised to discover that DX Engineering is about more than transceivers, antennas, towers, and amplifiers. Look through the latest catalog and you’ll see what we mean. You’ll […]

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Technical Articles

How to Use RF Gain, Noise Blanker, and Other Transceiver Features to Improve Copy

There will always be some kind of ambient noise on the HF bands. It may be either man-made (QRM) such as pulse noises from vehicle ignitions or natural (QRN) like […]

Alinco mobile ham radio
Products & Product Reviews

Videos: Unboxing and Reviewing the New Alinco DMR Mobile DR-MD500T Radio

DX Engineering’s own customer/technical support specialist “Digital Dorsey” (Ken, KA8OAD), returns with two information-packed videos on the new Alinco DR-MD500T Advanced Dual-Band VHF-UHF DMR Part 90 Mobile Transceiver. About the […]

Hamplus antenna switch box
Technical Articles

Choosing a Coax Switch

When it comes to ham radio, one radio is never enough. The same thing goes for antennas–multiple bands usually mean multiple antennas. Soon, you’ve got a maze of coax connections […]

HAM Radio 101

Ham Radio 101: Cross Cultural Communication Made Easy with Q-Signals

Q-signals are a system of radio shorthand originally derived from old-school telegraphy codes. They date back as far as the advent of wireless radio. Used frequently among hams, Q-signals provide […]

rigexpert antenna analyzer stick
Products & Product Reviews

RigExpert’s Stick 230 Compact Antenna Analyzer Packs a Powerful Punch 

In the world of Ham Radio, the name RigExpert has become synonymous with antenna analyzers that expertly perform a range of critical functions while defining the expression, “Great things come […]

Top Ten Band Aide decoder box
Amateur Radio News

DX Engineering Acquires Top Ten Devices, Inc.

DX Engineering announces that it has acquired Top Ten Devices, Inc. and will be manufacturing and distributing three of its signature devices under the Top Ten Devices brand—the A/B Station […]