Funny and interesting article from K9JY about letting go of some things in our hobby. Scot states that he thinks QSL cards are not of today anymore. Maybe he is right. Some years ago when I made my first DX QSO, I had not yet made QSL-cards. I found in my logging program an option [...]
I was looking for a new radio for a while. For 2m and 70cm I used my good old Yeasu FT-817. Actually my first radio. A perfect radio for mobile and backpack use, but not for the QTH. For in the shack I wanted something a little bigger, multiband capabilities and the most important: more [...]
Often when I listen to big pile-ups I notice many people tune on the QSO-frequency itself. This is highly inconveniënt and very annoying for other people. Myself I always tune a few KHz away from the QSO-frequency (if that frequency is not in use, as far as I can hear). It seems to happen more [...]
This afternoon I’ve had a very short QSO with Ken, W3JK. I immediately noticed that Ken produces a beautiful sound on the bands. At his QRZ.com page I found a link to his own website. When you take a look over there, you understand why his sound jumps out. By the way, not only the [...]
It came to my mind that my blog was missing a very important feature: when you post a comment, you probably want to be mailed when there’s a update on it (or an answer). So I installed a nice plugin for that now: Subscribe to Comment. Hope you’ll like it!
Some time ago I was reading about an full wave loop antenna. I was interested in this antenna right away. Since the preparation for the full radio exam I was told that full size antenna’s always outperform half wave or quarter wave antenna’s. The only problem is the space you need to make such an [...]
From www.PA1JIM.nl we wish you all a very happy new year! Hope we have a nice 2009 and many many new contacts and friendship on the air! 73′s DE Jim