In our preparation to sell our home we have been trying to restore the house to a sellable condition including taking down my ham radio tower.  Today was supposed to be the day that it was taken down and sold.  Unfortunately the buyer could not come out today so it will have to wait until [...]

You may remember last week I posted about a storm that came through and caused some damage around my dad’s house along with mine.  This storm caused a lot of hail damage to my car, bent the repeater antenna on my tower and also on my dad’s tower.  I just did not have the time, [...]

This week has been very busy with having to work overtime the last two weekends in a row and working two hours overtime each day.  Some point this week, my HF antenna fell from the tower and landed on my next door neighbor’s power line.  Both the antenna and her power line were insulated so [...]

Today is a special day for amateur radio operators.  You may have heard them referred to as ham radio operators.  I have been a licensed ham radio operator since I was 17 years old in 1983.  Today being the last Saturday of the month of June makes this a day that many hams look forward [...]

Good morning everyone, I am anxiously awaiting the sun to return and the temperature to rise a bit.  Every since the ice storm in December, life has been out of order.  We have been slowly getting back to normal.  Yesterday was a big step in getting back to normal when the city of Del City’s [...]

I am trying to decide on a multiband dipole antenna for my HF radio.  I have very limited room on my property.  My yard is only 65 feet at the widest point and my neighbor has a large tree that hangs over into my yard.  I have a G5RV up there that works fine but [...]