Month: July 2025

School clubs are a great way to get young people interested in, or at least exposed to, amateur radio. Without my school club, K8LPS, I wouldn’t have had the motivation or desire to get my license, and even if I had, I wouldn’t be nearly as involved in the hobby. School clubs can, however, be […]

DX Engineering provides mission-critical equipment for this complex undertaking. Also, read about the rare 2025 DXpedition to Mount Athos. With the next DXpedition to rarely activated Bouvet Island (recently moved down to #11 on the DXCC Most Wanted List) only about six months away, it was a rare treat to have three operators from the […]

On June 17, 2025—two days after we arrived at our condo in St-Ferréol-les-Neiges—we drove to Québec City to pick up a few provisions. My wife loves exploring thrift stores and had mentioned on the way into town that she’d enjoy popping by one before we returned that day. My POTA brain immediately pinged because I […]

Activating a park can be a lot of fun. My Yaesu FT-891 and ATAS-120A Auto Active Tuning Antenna have done very well for me the last few years. But there are times when I like to add variety and try something different—perhaps a different rig or a different band or mode. That is what’s happening […]

One of the many things that makes DX Engineering unique is its commitment to making high-quality products from smaller amateur radio manufacturers available to operators worldwide. While the giants of the ham radio community are well represented at DX Engineering, up-and-coming producers of station-enhancing gear find a welcome spot at the table among more familiar […]

When we plotted our trip to Canada this year, I mentally set a goal for myself: to get better at Adaptive Urban Park Activating (AUPA). Yeah, I just made that initiative up. Don’t laugh (too hard). Let me explain… Back home in North Carolina—and really, most of the parks I travel to in the eastern […]

OnAllBands is nearing the end of our review of the top-ten Most Wanted DXCC Entities—and what a long, strange trip it’s been. How long? We decided to find out. For the fun of it, we’ve calculated the distance you’d have to travel to reach each entity—one through nine in order on the list. Assuming you […]

Many thanks to Ken (WR7D) for sharing the following field report and travelogue: POTA in Hungary by Ken (HA/WR7D) I had the opportunity to take a short notice trip to Hungary the beginning of June. I was accompanying my daughter who was attending a class at the University of Debrecen as part of her PhD […]

It’s with a heavy heart that I share news of a tragic accident that took the life of fellow ham radio operator and POTA enthusiast, Tripp Owens (N4NTO). According to CBS 17 and WRAL, Tripp died after being electrocuted at a cemetery in Harnett County, North Carolina–most likely at Averasboro Battlefield Historic Site (US-11375). Reports […]

Besides radio, one thing I love to geek out about is bags, pouches, backpacks—and more specifically—how and what I pack. In fact, some of my favorite YouTube videos are those where the host shows how they pack for, say, summer travels in Asia, a one-week business trip to Helsinki, or what’s in their Everyday Carry […]