Month: July 2025

While most hams in the U.S. are familiar with amateur radio conventions like Dayton Hamvention® and Orlando HamCation, many may not be aware of the Friedrichshafen Ham Fair, which is held every June on Lake Constance in Germany. The 2025 fair ran from June 27-29. I had the opportunity to go last summer. Getting to […]

Over the past couple of years, I’d been casually watching the used market for a Kenwood TH-D72A handheld. Last summer, I started searching in earnest—I wanted one specifically for portable full-duplex satellite work. For discontinued gear like this, instead of waiting for one to show up, I’ll often post a “WTB” (Want To Buy) ad […]

DX Engineering to serve as Technical Partner for upcoming Bioko Island DXpedition. English poet John Donne famously opined, “No man is an island.” Written in the early 17th century, the phrase speaks metaphorically of the interconnectedness of humanity, something that Maxwell, Hertz, Marconi, and others would prove physically possible through the development of wireless radio […]

Note: This first field report from my 2025 trip to Canada happens to coincide with Canada Day (today, July 1, 2025). Happy Canada Day! by Thomas (VY2SW / K4SWL) In a previous post, I mentioned that my family was heading north into Canada for a few weeks this summer. This trip wasn’t easy to carve […]