Sit down, and let me tell you a tale of woe. As I mentioned in my last post, I got my random wire antenna up in the air and it seemed to tune reasonably well with my AT-100Pro. However (isn’t there always a “however”?), the problem that I immediately noticed is that there was broadband… Read More Fun With Broadband Noise
Now that we are pretty well situated in our new house, I decided it was time to give some serious consideration to what I was going to do in the HF antenna department. Given my reading of the CC&Rs, a full-on 135-foot dipole just wasn’t going to be in the cards, no matter how much… Read More Episode IV (A New Antenna)
Since the ham shack is now mostly packed up in cardboard boxes and plastic totes, the only ham radio activity that I’ve been working on lately is research on antenna options for the new QTH. I’ll have a fairly good-sized lot at the new QTH with tall trees on opposite corners. The problem is that… Read More Stealth Antenna Options