Category: Amateur Radio (Ham Radio)

It is common knowledge among radio amateurs that a 40m center-fed half wave dipole antenna will work very well on 15m. That is because center fed dipole antennas,

Had a sked QSO with 9N2NK on 10m just now. The speciality of the sked was that it was arranged through a chat on ‘X’ instantly! 9N2NK replied

An ideal long wire antenna is one which is several wavelengths long. But that is not practical for most amateur radio operators. Sometimes it is also called as

IC 2730 is a full duplex radio with two VFOs. You can tune to either VHF or UHF on either of the two VFOs. Transmit mode is available

Yesterday evening I tuned to 20m with my shortened end fed half wave antenna mounted using 3m PVC/CPVC pipes on my first floor terrace. To my surprise several

I used to work on 80m in late 1980s when the solar cycle started going down and propagation on 40m started deteriorating. I made necessary changes in my

We have discussed tuned radio frequency receivers and superheterodyne receivers. Among superheterodyne receivers we have seen both upconverting superhets and the conventional downconverting superhets. Another type of radio

I have been listening to CQ WW Contest stations from yesterday. I found that almost all of them were too fast for me to work. Finally today morning

Stability of an oscillator is the degree of uniformity of frequency of the oscillator when measured over time. Frequency can change with change in conditions like temperature, load

Just tuned in to HF bands on my FT-710. Nothing heard on lower bands or WARC bands. 21 MHz was the most active band with plenty of CW