Nov 12-13 was the ARRL EME contest. In contrast to the last year, the moon was visible, the weather was excellent, and I had a 1 KW Beko amp. I could make many QSOs. My EME system is set up Read more
I use 3 BEVFLEX boxes for bidirectional beverages using the RG6 cable. One extra plus of the BEVFLEX system is that the boxes can be in the middle of the cable. The beverages work every well. Recently the Western direction Read more
My JK Mid 40 includes “shorty forty” that has low SWR in the CW subband on 40m but up to 3.0:1 at 7.2. That was not a problem when I used the Expert amplifier with the built-in tuner. However I Read more
With my SO2R setup ready, I started testing. Transmit on 40m and receive on 20m. A 40m meter signal has a harmonic on 20m but is it attenuated by both the low power and high power bandpass filters. So with Read more
I wanted to do SO2R contesting. My Expert 1.3k can do sort of SO2R but with a substitute antenna like a vertical. So I purchased PG XL, a SO2R amplifier designed for SO2R. I expected an amplifier that would generate Read more