Fall is the perfect time for hiking, it\'s not too hot and not too cold. Last weekend I took a day trip to hike up High Mountain in New Jersey and activate SOTA summit W2/NJ008. It\'s really easy to set up an HF portable radio and not a whole lot to carry up the mountain. This...

In building the ham radio 40/80 meter inverted v antenna I ran into a slight set back. My SWR readings were very high and I first thought my antenna or cable to be bad. Fearing the worst I found the problem. A short circuit in the SO-239 connector in my MFJ-259B Antenna Analyzer. This is how I...

This is the WD0AKX 10 meter ham radio beacon transmitter on 28.2235 Mhz running around one half watt power output from Albert Lea, MN. The camera used is a Kodak Zi8 in 720p at 30 fps.

UU1CC Sample telegraph pounding using D.I.Y. homebrew Iambic Paddle

This is a video of the Lindsay/Gingery coil winder that I built a ways back. It makes nice universal wound coils as well as solenoids. It is basically the Morris coil winder that was popular in the early years of radio.

KC9KEP's first stab at a crystal filer I.F. tube receiver for 80 and 40m. From the 1961 ARRL handbook. More information at: http://www.bignick.net/simple_x/simplex.htm

Warminster Amateur Radio Club New Repeater Presentation

Yup, there's even a video of THIS! Amazing, soon we'll see people opening up utility bills on youtube. Anyway, if you've always used RG-8 or RG-213, this is a nice step right past LMR-400 and into the real stuff. This is the last step before Heliax. The difference w/ 600 Vs the first...

Simple, commonplace and vital to our electronic world - take a closer look at the current-fighting backbone of circuitry, the resistor! more Make presents: The LED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3PDLsJQcGI The Capacitor - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYH9dGl4gUE audio & video by Collin...

This is one of my 144Mhz Mosfet amplifiers with Freescale MRF6VP2600H. This is a 49V Ldmosfet amplifier for 144Mhz which easily puts out 500 Watt in linear service. The amplifier exhibits a gain of around 20dB and noteable gain compression sets in above 500 Watts of output power. Not shown in...