James McLaughlin, WA2EWE/T6AF, was one of several killed in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 27. News sources say that eight American troops and a US contractor died Wednesday after an Afghan military pilot opened fire during a meeting in an operations room of the Afghan Air Corps at the Kabul airport — the deadliest…
Edition 2 (July 2008) By John Devoldere, ON4UN Mark Demeuleneere, ON4WW Proof reading and corrections by Bob Whelan, G3PJT Most radio amateurs or aspiring radio amateurs reading this manual are probably new to amateur radio. Up until recently, newcomers were thrown on the bands with very little, if any, help, without clear instructions or teaching…
Yuri Gagarin Special Event Stations Many special event stations will be active around the world this week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight Special event stations R50YG and R50SK are active from Baikonur until April 14 and the special call R50KEDR will be on the air on April 12…
I use separate phased Beverage (note the capitalization, this is a man’s name!) arrays on 160M, 80M and 40M. (hey… why do u refer to 80M as 75M??? 300 divided by 3.75 = 80 !!! Or have ur SS interests caused to to forget about (80M!) freqs below 3900 kHz?) If u are planning to…
“The new device I designed, named Wave Bubble, is intended to defend the user’s personal space from unwanted wireless communication by creating a personal “cold spot” bubble where RF devices such as those mentioned do not function.” Attached below is a thesis submitted for partial fulfillment of a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and…