by w5fcx | Sep 7, 2019 | Antennas
I recently had a trip to Bear Lake in Idaho planned and wanted to do some portable operation, so I decided to give the CrankIR a try. The heat in Texas becomes tiresome, so getting away from it further north is nice in the summer, and a great opportunity to experiment...
by w5fcx | Aug 31, 2019 | Antennas, Spiderbeam
This time around the Spiderbeam HD antenna and mast made it two years before succumbing to the winds of a thunderstorm. Here are the pictures. BEFORE View from the water View from below Side view Under – facing North (no guy line to South) AFTER View from the...
by w5fcx | Feb 19, 2017 | Extra
As I just shared on our Antenna Design slack channel, I was fortunate enough to pass the Extra exam yesterday. I had some top-notch instructors – Skip Ferguson/K5LLR and Keith Dutson/NM5G, who invested their time with a bunch of us over two weekends to help pull...
by w5fcx | Jan 3, 2017 | Antennas, Mobile
In addition to remote station operation, the next best thing is mobile operation, of course! As with every ham radio station, mobile comes with its own challenges. Here’s how I built mine and overcame the challenges that presented along the way. The Rig Yaesu...
by w5fcx | Dec 30, 2016 | Antennas, Remote Station, Software Defined Radio, Spiderbeam, The Shack
After posting details about A Software-Defined Remote Station Design recently, I received a question about station costs, so went ahead and put together a parts list and cost estimation spreadsheet, which is summarized below. You can download the spreadsheet as a...
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