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  29 July 2024 20S 0943Z 0543L K8JSM/AM Sean, pilot on a 757/300. En route from San Francisco to Orlando with 246 souls on board, including ...

  Dear Dean KK4DAS: ... 3) Note that a rule of thumb I have used successfully in adjusting RF Power MOSFET bias is to increase the voltage i...

That's me at the operating position.   Window looks out to the terrace and to the ocean to the East, the  Mona channel.  The shack is on...

The delay was caused by my being at SolderSmoke Shack South and not having an Audacity audio editor in my ancient Chrome book.   Thanks to D...

Thanks Lex:  Your message reminded me of a comment sent to me on the YouTube channel.  The commenter seemed to criticize my use of a digital...

For the moment this podcast is video only.  The video appears above.  Here is the URL for the video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeNTv3...

I'm going to move the antenna up onto the roof (out of sight).   

This is a really wonderful video.  I especially liked his presentation on the nature of the EM spectrum, and his use of the centimeter waves...

Mike WU2D put out this nice video (above) about whether or not he should part out his Heath SG-6 signal generator, using the parts in a Para...

Let me start by saying that I LIKE Ham Radio Workbench.  But I found a lot in the current edition that I disagreed with.  The whole panel se...

I really liked Eric's interview with Will KI4POV:   https://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/KI4POV Will has appeared on this blog and podcast ...

Mike WU2D recently put out this interesting video.  I vaguely remember the springs on the Radio Shack kits -- I also remember (bitterly) not...