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Troubling reading of coax  Faulty PL259  Last week I posted about a wonky SWR reading I was getting and I figured it may be the result of a ...

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 new location for Endfed....Shingles are my next project When we moved into our place last August I set up my Endfed as a temp setup...

At my location with the lot size, the best antenna for me is an Endfed. Now I am not at all complaining because just a short time ago I was ...

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...

The End-fed antenna I have now is the W1SFR KX3 helper End-fed antenna. It's a great antenna and is working nicely. It is very we...

The other day I was very pleased to work a new one using FT8  Kazakhstan UN7CBY Vladimir. I had seen him in the waterfall in the past but ...

My Endfed antenna was put up on October 2nd with a few issues that I blogged about but mostly have been sorted out. Today was the test to ...

Old HDMI monitor cable I have had some positive moves forward with regards to my RFI in the shack. I am the kind of person who has to si...

The W1SFR Endfed antenna is up and things went very straight forward with the install. My options for a location a limited so I ended up hav...

I'm looking at (in my spare time) an antenna I can use over the winter months and then when the spring comes and more time on my hands t...