Read and heed, or you'll be sorry. The cold weather causes us to spend more time in the shack and to work on new homebrew project. Some of these projects may involve sensitive, delicate, solid-state components that can be instantly wiped out by that little winter spark from your finger...
Take a look:
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2016/01/an-electro-static-bandaid-to-protect.html
I have to be especially careful this year, because Northern Virginia is now officially in a drought. So that spark-friendly dry winter air is likely to be even dryer this year.
Sales of the ICOM IC-7300 HF Transceiver pass the 100,000 mark
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ICOM launched their *IC-7300* transceiver covering the HF bands & 6m back
in 2016 and it certainly caused a stir at the time. ICOM have announced
that as...
2 hours ago