Author: Johnson Francis

Those of you who have been following my posts would know that I have been trying to come up on 80m for the past few weeks. Initially I

Started working on the FM Radio Kit once again. Now I am soldering the central pin of the 10K volume control potentiometer. Second wire to the potentiometer being

Few days back VU3WEW had mentioned about a planned IOTA DXpedition to Sacrifice Rock which is along the coast of my own district. In fact I had a

Thought of conducting propagation test on six HF bands for which I have provision. For 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands I use a three band fan dipole

Many of you would have heard of moon bounce, popularly known as EME or Earth-Moon-Earth contacts in which radio signals are bounced off the moon to establish two

FM radio is quite popular these days and there are many FM channels available in most of the cities. If you live away from a city or wish

Folded back the Western side of my zig-zag antenna by 60cm. Due to folding constraints, I had to make three layers for the folding for this 60cm! Mounted

Folded back 76 cm from the Western side of my 80m antenna under construction, which is a zig-zag off center fed linear loaded inverted V dipole with three

Connected my cross needle SWR meter to the SO239 connector of my FT-710 radio with a patch cable. In fact there are two patch cables, one with PL259

I had posted a comparison of the performance of my setup as assessed by pick up at CW skimmers on Reverse Beacon Network. Repeated the same test in