I am always building almost any 2 meter antenna i can find plans for, was motivated by the two recent posts to provide these links for you to view: 2 meter J-Pole by David, KG4BIN. he gives a good

Adding to the myriad of 2M j-pile plans "out there", to our file area I've added a sketch of a 2M j-pole, the prototype of which was built several years ago for Santa Cruz County ARES (I have since

I have had several "LED" hats, one to 4 LEDs but just found the best one yet! 6 very bright LEDs however this has an on-off switch on the battery pack in addition to the brim on-off

if you were not at the Meeting, you missed an interesting and fun demonstration! Program was Dennis, WU6X's Presentation on Remote Rig Control via the iPhone. Look in the Videos section of our

Nice, thanks. I'll take a look at some pictures of this on the 'net, too. Mark G., W8BIT--------------------------------------------------------------- http://saundby.com/ Electronics, Books, Video

Sounds great, thanks a lot. I was thinking of attaching it to a piece of antenna rope and seeing how far up I can get it in the blue spruce outside my window. Thanks, Mark,

FYI, to get a good match you should also feed it with a 1:1 balun. The balun can be made up of a length of coax, 26-1/2 inches braid-to-braid. Roll the coax into a coil and solder all the braids

Bob, Thanks. Will post this under the current link on our site from: "Coax attenuation charts courtesy W4RP" 73, Carl

Guys, Here's a link to a coax loss calculator. http://www.arrg.us/pages/Loss-Calc.htm Bob WE6C

Mine is very simple. Made entirely from 1/2 inch copper tubing. Plans are readily available on the internet. Just type in copper J-pole plans into a search engine. The base of mine is made long (2

I got a call today from W6WEM today telling me I had a radiogram from WB5NKD. It was a nice standard message encouraging me to look into handling traffic on nets. I wrote a blog article about it all

Started at 6pm, but still going strong: http://live.twit.tv/ 73, Carl, WF6J wf6j@...

Dennis, I like your 44 dollar radio you showed us at breakfast. I think you were saying to be careful where you order it from due to sometimes you do not get software etc??? Can you tell me where to

Powerwerx is the importer of this inexpensive little radio. I brought mine to the last breakfast. Here's the info on it if your looking for a cheap, durable little HT to take with you

Allen Pitts, W1AGP is the PR Director at ARRL. Today they have released a new video to show all about what Amateur Radio has to offer. The Video starts at Dayton and is a must see. I have posted the

This is about Emergency Communications and Social Media http://9-1-1.com/wordpress/2011/12/12/the-emergency-communications-catalyst-social-media-meets-amateur-radio/ -- thanks to: David

You know even Glenn Beck has been telling listeners to get their Ham licenses & buy old tube sets. Bob

Through my limited research I've learned many folks who are into disaster preparedness and survivalists have been advocating ham radio licenses in case of or when the phone system goes down. I think

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/11/17/radio-days-are-back-ham-radio-licenses-at-all-time-high/ Copy and paste into your browser. FOX news says we have over 700,000 hams now. 73, Dennis