Field Day 2018 – Every day is field day
Almost every day is field day for me, “Special Event” optional. The excitement of Field Day is seeing so many other stations out working /P […]
Month: June 2018
Radio Prepper Off Grid Emergency SIM on 80M CW
Hello Operators. Many of you know my friend Gil F4WBY the Radio Prepper. He is an absolute Morse code fanatic. Minimal shirt pocket size radios, […]
Emergency Portable Power: Powerfilm Inergy Kodiak
Hello Operators. Being around the channel and blog for a while, one probably understands how much the Canadian Prepper is a trusted member of my […]
New source for the 50A LiFePO4 BMS
best source for the 50/60A LiFePO4 BMS
Solar Energy vs latitude
My dear friend and Elmer Bonnie replied to a question on one of my posts. I thought it would be incredibly useful to share with […]
Raspberry Pi Powered Yaesu FT-891 WSJT-X FT8
Hello Operators. I recently got the Headless Raspberry Pi 3B+ powered Yaesu FT-891 working. So I decided to take a trip to Lapland, putting the […]
Amorphous vs Polycrystalline vs Monocrystalline Solar Panels
When we are discussing solar panels for man portable off-grid Communications, there are really only three choices. Despite the paid-for-promotion YT videos, we can easily […]
DIY Magloop project
the easiest way to build yourself a magnetic loop antenna for amateur radio portable
Inverted Lazy L Random Long Wire. 3 New Countries
Lots of antenna “experts” keep telling me the inverted lazy l is not an effective antenna. I’m told the modeling of this configuration, give back […]
Brazil on FT8 – New country on a Long Wire Antenna
Hello Operators. Recently I’ve been doing a lot of work with wsjt-x and the mode FT8. There’s a couple of different reasons for the move […]