I've said it before (read it here) and I'll say it again: contesting without UA from here would be very boring especially with the current propagation. Russia hosts the next WRTC in 2010 and put up a

The summer here continues to disappoint us but nevertheless I managed to prepare a 7m high support for the K9AY RX loop. The support is made of the remains of 3 fiber glass poles that cracked under th

This evolves into a blog about a contester that does not seem to contest... After RDXC and WPX CW and some smaller contests I also let IARU go by. And while I made a few hundred QSO in the other two,

It's been two weeks since my last posting. Not a lot happened on the ham front. I sold one of my TS-850 transceivers. I got a fair price and the buyer bought a bargain I think. I made a small test set

In the late 80ies - early 90ies MTV ran a campaign that said 'Books feed your head'. How true. So what does a ham radio freak feed his brain? Right: antenna books! One of my favorite books is Simple a