Jason Milldrum on October 4th, 2008

Sit down, and let me tell you a tale of woe. As I mentioned in my last post, I got my random wire antenna up in the air and it seemed to tune reasonably well with my AT-100Pro. However (isn't there always a "however"?), the problem that I immediately noticed is that there was broadband [...]

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Jason Milldrum on October 4th, 2008

WIIGII! Tonight I had my first QSOs with the new station! I was considering CW but I was feeling a bit sheepish about trying because I'm so out of practice right now. So I dragged out my homebrew sound card interface and homebrew CI-V level converter and hooked them up to the IC-718. A bit [...]

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Jason Milldrum on October 3rd, 2008

Now that we are pretty well situated in our new house, I decided it was time to give some serious consideration to what I was going to do in the HF antenna department. Given my reading of the CC&Rs, a full-on 135-foot dipole just wasn't going to be in the cards, no matter how much [...]

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Jason Milldrum on October 1st, 2008

Well, after a frantic and exhausting weekend, we're finally moved in to the new QTH. I'm happy to report that the actual moving part of the move went almost exactly as planned. But (as usual) I underestimated the time it would take to clean the old place. We still managed to get all of our [...]

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