VE2DPE's Ham Radio
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News and events related to amateur-radio. They also cover posts about ham radio equipment such as transceivers, receivers, antennas, and software. Claude is Ham radio op VE2DPE. Retired Wx specialist & MIS analyst.
VE2DPE's Ham Radio
1M ago
Congressman Bill Johnson (OH-6) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R.9670) on Thursday, December 22, 2022, to eliminate private land use restrictions that prohibit, restrict, or impair the ability of an Amateur Radio Operator from operating and installing amateur station antennas on property subject to the control of the Amateur Radio Operator.
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VE2DPE's Ham Radio
4M ago
Hi Claude, I want to thank you for the design of the NVIS portable antenna. I built it to the dimensions given in your article (see reference link to
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VE2DPE's Ham Radio
6M ago
Since July 28, 2022, they can now operate on: 472-479 kHz on 630 m and on 5351.5-5366.5 kHz on 60 m.
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VE2DPE's Ham Radio
9M ago
My stacked dipole worked great on 10, 15 & 20 meters but when I tried adding a 40-meter element, it was too big. (See reference at the end of this article)
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VE2DPE's Ham Radio
9M ago
I enjoy building antennas. A fellow Ham recommended that I try building a 2 meter / 70 centimeter vertical dipole antenna. I read the article he was referring
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VE2DPE's Ham Radio
10M ago
The following illustrates the effects of ground refection gain at varying antenna heights above ground. At this location, the elevation above sea level
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VE2DPE's Ham Radio
10M ago
I needed a 160-meter antenna to fit between two existing support structures. A full-sized 160-meter inverted ‘V’ antenna was too long at a length of
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VE2DPE's Ham Radio
10M ago
I own and use it for QRP work. I was about to write a glowing article about it on my site HamRadioSecrets.com. I just found out that the antenna is no longer manufactured since 11/17/21. A crying shame.
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VE2DPE's Ham Radio
10M ago
Garth Merritt VE5VG shares PyNetLogger a freeware net control logging app. It interacts with a database of Canadian callsigns.
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VE2DPE's Ham Radio
1y ago
This article describes how to build a vertical dipole antenna for 20, 15 and 10 meters. It is only 8.3 feet tall and sports three active concentric ring
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