Earlier this season, I have successfully taken my high-power 100 watt portable HF station on a number of adventures – both short outings not too far from home and longer road trips. Inspired by the spirit of field radio, I… Continue Reading
Last weekend, the weather offered a very mild Saturday afternoon that was very hard to spend indoors. Plus, I haven’t done any field radio since my trip to Michigan, so it didn’t take too much for me to get set… Continue Reading
On Monday, November 11, we had an opportunity to witness an interesting and relatively rare celestial phenomenon – the transit of Mercury across the Sun. This event is essentially an eclipse of sorts – except Mercury is much farther from… Continue Reading
Even since I got a longer 17-foot whip to try with my Super Antenna, and did several park activations with it, I wanted to perform a more or less objective comparison of the antenna’s performance with its stock titanium whip… Continue Reading