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The Ultimate Wire Antenna | Chameleon Skyloop 2.0

June 12, 2021 Julian OH8STN 4

Hello Operators.Before anything else, this needs to be said. Don’t waste your time or money on any antenna gimmicks for your home station! For the […]

SKYLOOP Antenna | Hybrid Winlink Network Part 1

April 27, 2021 Julian OH8STN 14

Hello OperatorsFor some time its been a goal to add additional HF antenna capabilities to the tower. The first thought was adding a yagi! Unfortunately, […]

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QRPX Army NETCOM Annual HF Low Power Competition

April 10, 2021 Julian OH8STN 3

Hello operators. I thought this would be an interesting post to share. It’s always nice to see amateur radio equipment being used in “real world” […]

Icom AH-705 Icom IC-705 Chameleon EMCOMM 3B 80M JS8Call

April 7, 2021 Julian OH8STN 4

Hello Operators. Normally I wouldn’t fire off a blog post like this so quickly after receiving product however, something happened which has never happened before. […]

Chameleon EMCOMM 3B Ground System.

November 17, 2020 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators Many of you have recently noticed the exceptional performance of my home station, through results shared on social media. Certainly some of you […]

Less is more! JS8Call 40M Mesh Network

December 4, 2019 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators.For the last 24 hours, I’ve bewn running an experiment. An experiment where I am only operating at 25 watts output, but doing so […]

Chameleon MPAS MIL Whip MIL EXT Hybrid Micro update

April 25, 2019 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators It’s been a long time coming, but chameleon antenna has finally released some updates for the very popular mpas antenna system. I don’t […]

Chameleon Emcomm 3 Portable | First Impressions

March 12, 2019 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators Today is Monday so we’re sharing a video from Gil F4WBY This time Gil is testing the Chameleon EMCOMM 3 Portable antenna in […]

Arctic Field Test Chameleon EMCOMM III Portable

May 19, 2018 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators. Today I’m at KP26JL. This is between Rovaniemi and Yli-Tornio Finland. The goal of todays trip is to deploy the solar powered Field […]

FT8 Sessions with Chameleon EMCOMM 3 Base

May 2, 2018 Julian OH8STN 0

Hello Operators. Today we’re discussing the EMCOMM III Base from Chameleon Antenna, but this is not a review. The goal of this video is to […]

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