These days it would seem as if every product were manufactured with an engineered lifespan. I find this particularly true with cheaper ele...

 For some time now I have been punishing my antenna tuner and radio by attempting to tune a ten-meter hamstick dipole to six meters. At time...

 These days you are much more likely to see solar panels on the roof of a house than you are to see a television antenna peaking above its h...

  I know its been a while since my last post and life often gets in the way but my antenna building efforts have been rekindled and the next...

  A lot has been going on since the last entry. Through all of the birthdays, kitchen remodeling, and work projects that I am leading, I man...

 Throughout the summer I had been recording some very high air quality readings on my weather station, This is a terrible situation for anyo...

 "What happened?", you say? Well, apparently the neighbors that live behind me, in particular the Man, his Wife, and Daughter have...

 After a lot of testing and reading on baluns, I ended up removing an additional two winds on each of the coils of my 1:1 balun. The perform...