NY4G - Ham Radio, QRP and Summits On The Air

Well the Vertex-Standard guys did not really fix everything. They replaced the EMI filter but did not fully check out the radio. The radio...

Received the FT817 yesterday evening from the repair folks at Vertex-Standard and everything tested OK on send and receive. Dialed into the ...

The resistor kit for my Cantenna type dummy load described in k4eaa's site has arrived. The only missing components are a couple of bra...

The MFJ1778 G5RV arrived along with 75 ft of coax. Part of the day was devoted to getting the shack electrical and RF ground buried. Just ne...

Yaesu (Vertex-Standard) called me yesterday and indicated that the repaired FT817 will likely ship out next Monday

Acquired an old TS830 from another ham - sitting proudly on my desk and waiting for an Astatic D104 microphone coming in from Colorado. A 35...

This site makes available a program you can download to calculate antenna efficiency based on parameters you input: I nverted-V antennas ...

This is from Mike Banz - AA3RL A great write-up for those interested in dipole performance and this write-up equally applies to G5RV All-Ba...

The old standby QRP radio has been sent to vertex Standard in Cypress CA for repair. I hope to get it back soon to get back on the air agai...

Well here I am trying to establish a dedicated shack in a spare room in the basement. I moved an old computer desk I made a long time ago f...

This is really very strange how this happened. KQ4VY was helping me set up HRD and DM780 on my FT817. My battery was running low and it wa...

Here are some instructions for how to properly tune your Kenwood hybrid transmitter. It takes longer to describe than it does to actually t...