What saddens me is so many hams think a dipole is best because it presents a "perfect match" of 50ohms. Wrong. A dipole is roughly 72 ohms if you are lucky and wildly different depending on height and structures nearby.
Yagi antennas are even worse depending on the design and often need an antenna tuner hidden at the antenna. Get the lowest loss feedline you can use and don't feel guilty about the tuner in the shack.
Sent some emails today looking for a local tower rigger to fix my busted 6m beam... Hopefully the rigger who put it up in the first place is still in the business. Also sent an email looking for a replacement piece from the 6m beam manufacturer..]
I love the cherry picker idea! If only I knew someone with a cherry picker who could help! 🙂
HamClock is easy to get going, but (a) any chance there's a retina-friendly option, and (b) is there a friendly fork where the source code is maintained somewhere in git, instead of in tarball-form?
@geerlingguy I don't know how much ham radio you're into Jeff, but by and large #hamradio has a spotted history with #foss, often because of the possibility that the software might end up being used commercially or that a bad actor (read: entrepreneur) would try to profit off the work that hams donate to the community under the general non-commercial nature of amateur radio.
Good news, the radio club president (KR3LL) and friend works at Kicker and took my LCD module and de-soldered it after which I was able to complete the assembly. It all fits in the case and aligns perfect. I was able to tune it fine. However I'm not getting any RF power out, I can receive fine when connected to an antenna. Do you have any recommendations for tracing the issue?
First ever #summitsontheair station on the summit of Punta Maggiore (IS0/IS-064) in #Sardina (970m). I made 8 SSB contacts on 14MHz with my Elecraft KX2 and EFHW. Pathless scramble to the summit 🧗♂️🏞️ Thanks Chasers! #hamradio#sota#italy#mountains#hiking
Since my portable shortwave receiver is hardly picking up anything on HF (including no WWV signals), I think I'm going to wait a bit before digging out my antenna and related gear for working this month's #SKCC#HamRadio weekend sprint.