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Ten Ways to have the Most Fun in Ham Radio

by Jim Stafford, W4QO.  February 6, 2008. When non hams, who are looking at getting their ham licenses, ask me what they should do, I give them this list of what I think are the 10 things to increase their ham radio FUN!! I’ll write this as if I’m speaking […]

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The Half-Square versus the Loop Skywire

by Jim Stafford, W4QO Appeared in QRP Quarterly, Fall, 2006 Up until about 8 years ago, I had an 80 foot tower with a TH-6DXX on it.  It was quite fun working QRP with it on 20 thru 10 meters.  Reports of “WOW, you can’t be QRP!” or “are you […]

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Ham Shack Lightning Protection

By Hal Meyers – K4JHM SK First of all, lets get some basic concepts in mind. The thing that “gets” our equipment is the voltage difference between the various conductors coming into the equipment, not the magnitude of the voltage. Lets just take a simple modem as an example. It […]

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