I just wanted to tell everyone about my interaction with the FCC and their website. A fellow ham and I were trying to get his license renewed online and were having a lot of trouble navigating their website. We had to call their help line 4 times! Out of the times we called, three different persons were universally kind and… Read more »
I recently acquired a fine quality VHF antenna having about 9 dB gain. See below my initial efforts at designing a tuning stub for it. The antenna already has excellent characteristics but it only makes sense to optimize it. Please look for updating articles to come describing my work regarding getting this antenna up and running.
Wes Cardone presented at the July 2024 meeting of the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club the principles of directed energy by means of multiple antennas. The principle is that you rob from the rich and give to the poor. We decide on a pattern that we want our dual-antenna configuration to produce and then place the two antennas a defined distance… Read more »
The 2024 Chelsea Amateur Radio Club Swap & Shop was a huge success. The weather looked down upon us favorably as well. Please tune in later for photographs taken of our door prize awards presentations.
I will take the blame for allowing my Kenwood TM-V71A transceiver to be abused. Witness the result of my abuse illustrated in Figure 1. The DC power cord has become horribly frayed and worn. And that to the point of an imminent short! But let this be a warning to others to mind what is going on with your equipment… Read more »
The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club site agreement ends, and an urgent search for a new location is underway. Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club facing displacement after 50 Years on the Mesa
Hiram Percy Maxim (September 2, 1869 – February 17, 1936) was an American radio pioneer and inventor, and co-founder (with Clarence D. Tuska) of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Hiram Percy Maxim is credited with inventing and selling the first commercially successful firearm silencer, and also with developing mufflers for internal combustion engines. He created the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in 1914 as… Read more »
At the May meeting of the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club board, Margaret A. Goodrich (W8MAG) was made a life member. Margaret has served the club for literally decades upon decades with dedication. Her late husband, David, was likewise an asset to the club beyond measure.
Updated 4-18-2024 I recently discovered a YouTube video that shows how to cut an antenna’s feedline length to achieve resonance (See below). I then discovered that there are many such erroneous YouTube videos telling you that you can use “jumpers” to improve your antenna performance. There are no benefits to these practices! But this begs the question… Why? On the… Read more »