"Short guide" - ? That's quite a comprehensive resource, I'm impressed. Mark K5LXP Albuquerque, NM

Antenna gain and coax loss are absolutely factors in station performance but line of sight, dictated by antenna height (HAAT) will be the dominant factor in a given station's effective range. No amoun

It would take an especially long, or especially lossy feedline to overcome the signal increase by putting an antenna in a better location (e.g. roof). One can come up with a loss number that would neg

Careful what you ask for there, HOA's are not your friend. I've always gone the forgiveness is easier than permission route. I have several groundplanes made from mobile whips and from a couple dozen

Pretty much any antenna outside will be better than the one on the radio. Even a mobile antenna like a mag mount or trunk lip mount put up on a roof or outside a window will be an improvement. Not a l

I was an attendee of Hamcom since the 90's, and I very much miss my travels to that event since it's cancellation. Hopefully another convention will rise from the ashes, it left a void as far as NM as

W5PDY's activities were well covered in the ARRL Letter, which I'd do a search for but as you mention, the site is down for the upgrade. I would say what was most notable about him is he was just a pl

1. I've known my section manager for about 30 years (long before he was SM). 2. I see him at hamfests and other social events, and talk to him regularly on the radio. > I would love to learn how to be

Something to look for with any logging program is how the data is being stored. Some save your data in a proprietary format with maybe some export utility for contest submission (cabrillo, et al), but

Handheld antennas rely on the handheld chassis itself for a groundplane. If you're just connecting the handheld antenna to the end of a piece of coax or onto the analyzer itself it's going to be a dif

You can put a straight key on a TS-120 but that doesn't buy you much as far as learning and practice. You can turn off break-in and use the radio sidetone I guess but that's a long way around the bloc

Decades ago I was where you are. As a kid with paper route money all the gee whiz stuff at the radio store was but a fantasy. In my day used boatanchor radios where a dollar a pound, not exactly thrif

QRZ says you're in Kenosha. I grew up in Wauwatosa. One of my favorite hamfests was the one in Oak Creek. >>Portable? That would be the MPASS for grid down and to setup outside the condo on occasion.

> I also need to get an MPASS 2.0 antenna pack and a Compactenna. I'd hate to see you spend that much money for a bag of wire and sticks. What did you have in mind for portable operating? I've been do