United States Maps Of Counties Map Courtesy of Digital-Topo-Maps.com Click on a state to see a county map of the state you are looking for. Available for your viewing are county maps of all of the fifty states plus Landsat satellite images with state and county boundary lines superimposed. Click On A State United States […]
Watch ham operator K7ZS, as he demonstrates his powerful antenna launcher. His potato launcher does great for hanging those hf antennas high in the sky. Ham radio operators want to launch their wire antennas for ham radio use, and the goal is to find the highest tree branch and aim. I believe the goal here […]
I was monitoring my station when I heard a Peaberry SDR Transceiver Kit (an HF transceiver for Software Defined Radio) on the air, and I was impressed with the transmit quality. The ham operator said he was doing QRP and he said he was using only 1 watt! Impressive for sure, considering that the propagation […]
Winter has come and is on its way out. I had a 1/4 mile roll of #14 gauge electric fence wire. I was about to make an attempt to finally get on the Top Band, with the building of the giant 160 meter dipole. Bring it on! I’m going to tell you that it was […]
What will internet traffic look like in the year of 2016? Internet traffic is growing at a larger percentage than you might think. Care to take a guess? According to the numbers from cisco, global internet traffic may reach as high as 4 times greater than what it is at the current time. This is […]
A meteor lands in Russia over the Ural Mountains. This wonder of science looks similar to an atomic bomb explosion. Approximately 3,000 buildings were damaged and near 1,000 people were injured. Do they drive on the right side of the road in Russia? The meteor hit above the region of the Chelyabinsk Oblast on Friday.
The 80 Meter Doublet Antenna — 88 Ft/25Ft 300 Ohm Twin-lead This is my experiment with the 80 meter doublet antenna, using TV twin-lead wire, which is 300 ohms. This was a spur of the moment project. I built this antenna and quickly tried it out in February of 2013. My initial aim was actually […]
You may have heard of the Six Million Dollar Man, an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for the OSI government office. Now in the 21st century the first real bionic man is in the house. His name isn’t Steve Austin and he didn’t really cost six million dollars. His […]
From March 4, 2013 to May 26, 2013. Giving One Free Radio A Week! R & L Electronics will be hosting a giveaway — 12 free radios. There will be 1 winner each week for 12 weeks! They will give away 4 of each in 12 weeks. R&L Electronics Giveaway March 4 — May 26 […]
The website sometimes gets disconnected and it won’t come back — even after you hit the refresh button. Then you will renew the IP address. Here’s how to do it. Renew The IP Address 1. Click on the start menu on lower left side of desktop. 2. Then click run. 3. Then type the letters […]