I'm up to my elbows in the design work for the 2010 FDIM QRP Challenge, and I think I've come far enough along to give the rig a name. I'm happy to announce that I've dubbed this project Clackamas, in keeping with my tradition of naming my creations after Oregon rivers. The receiver is pretty [...]
Our favorite fashion hacker/ham, Diana Eng, KC2UHB, has posted a new article on the Make Magazine blog with instructions on how to build an End-Fed Half Wave antenna tuner and deploy it with an antenna. (BTW, did you see that she was recently named to the ARRL Public Relations Committee? An excellent choice the League.) [...]
When I was going through some files on my USB thumbdrive, I found a panorama of Hoover Dam that I made from some photos that I took on our honeymoon last August. There are some small blemishes in the rendering (some of the power lines have discontinuities and what not), but overall the results still [...]
