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I have been doing some reading regarding Endfed antennas and the length of 44 feet kept coming up as the length for a short Endfed antenna i...

The retired W1SFR For the past few days, our weather here on the East coast has been excellent nice warm weather (up to +10) with no rai...

Failed Hy-gain tape dipole Good Saturday afternoon readers and sorry for the tardiness with regards to finally getting around to part ...

My outdoor shack  I had this past Thursday off work and it was time to take my KX3 out on the trail again. In my last outing I used mono...

Well here we are once again trying to get the portable ham radio setup going. My first attempt was to place one of my mono band whips on my ...

The test setup  I was out today once again with my portable operations but this time there was no on air time it was time to test and de...

The antenna Overall I have been very pleased with the purchase of the MFJ 1788 loop antenna . Considering the location I am in and the ...

LP-100 reading I was on the air the other day using the MFJ loop and as I was trying to tune to the lowest SWR reading I noticed an odd ...

The loop horizontal and nothing.  In my last post I wrote about how my Alexloop was just not getting out in the condo, I was checking th...

Alpha Delta DX-EE with balun. Hy-gain noise antenna Being in an antenna restricted community.....now when I say restricted it is in ...

The car with the mono band 30m whip I have been reading on some blogs how op's have been able to fit in some operating time during ...

Setup for test. (Laptop running Ubuntu update) The propagation conditions have not been all that great over the last couple of days so w...

RBN spots (click to enlarge) The weather once again was great and I wanted to take the Alexloop out onto my back deck to see  how it w...

Relaxing on the deck. Last evening myself and a bathroom mat had a little hip hop time.....translation.....I was standing on a bathroom ...

This afternoon I was planning on setting up the Alexloop into the living room and try some operating with the KX3. I was wanting to see ho...

The next step in my Alexloop tests is the bandwidth in which the loop has. Again the antenna is mounted in a bedroom/office on the second ...

The new Alexloop antenna Just over 2 weeks ago I placed an order for the Alexloop,  For some time I have been debating what antenna to u...

I was going through my QST this week an had notice an add for a new antenna by SteppIR . In the past I would had just passed by the add b...

Not to shabby There are hams out there that I pass by them now and then on my travels who have the luxury and availability to erect am...

The new "ham mobile" Removing some metal from the K400 Well the summer is fast approaching and with it the warm weather. o...