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Lightning protection at AB1KW 14 Aug 2012 | 06:20 am
"Cable tray" Grounding bulkhead Bit by bit, I am trying to make my station more lightning resistant, with the ultimate goal of being able to stay on the air even during a thunderstorm, at least listen...
Snow storm 2011 5 Nov 2011 | 08:28 am
Sunday morning I woke up to this sight. An entire tree top, about 20-25ft long, had come down and blocked both garage doors. I borrowed a saw from the neighbors across the street (thank you) and ended...
Comment spam 12 Aug 2011 | 10:20 am
Lately I've been gotten a lot of comment spam on my blog, which Mollom was unable to stop. As a result, I've turned off comments by anonymous users for now. Once I get back from the KVM forum, I'll lo...
Stovetop trouble 10 May 2011 | 01:28 pm
While my wife was cooking dinner, the stove made a funny *pop* sound. After we stopped cooking, we noticed that the "element on" light is not coming off. Spent some quality time searching the net and ...
Home office & ham shack 7 Feb 2011 | 05:01 pm
A few monitor stands and two filing cabinets later, the home office is completely the way I want it to be. Left of the three monitors you can see the keyboard of my test system, the antenna switch, th...
Buster vs monitor 12 Jan 2011 | 09:15 am
Buster, our cat, loves sleeping next to my keyboard. He often sleeps in a ball, blocking part of my left monitor. I should buy taller monitor stands, so Buster can sleep next to my keyboard without bl...
160m double L antenna 4 Jan 2011 | 03:33 pm
After much planning and modeling of various different antenna types, I finally settled on a very simple antenna for 160. The reason? This one works just about as well as the larger more complicated an...
Split LRU documentation 4 Oct 2010 | 08:39 am
Earlier this week I updated the Split LRU VM design document a little. Seemed like a good idea to tell people about it, since that page is not seen that often and I do get questions about Split LRU on...
Vertical H antenna: radiator length vs height vs gain 1 Oct 2010 | 02:59 pm
The N6LF vertical H antenna is an off center fed, capacitively loaded, vertical short dipole. This antenna is a compact alternative to the quarter wave vertical, giving just a little bit less gain tha...
Nasiballen ronde 25 Sep 2010 | 03:36 am
De nasiballen ronde is een nederlandstalig zendamateur net, elke dag te horen om 1600 en 2100 UTC. De net controls voor de nasiballen ronde zijn meestal AC6VN Harm en ON4ACH Marc. Het net heeft regelm...
