Month: August 2025

It’s the fast, easy, and convenient way of upgrading your station’s coaxial cables. There are many aspects of amateur radio that pose significant challenges—learning CW or increasing your WPM speed, fixing the rotator serving your stacked Yagis, breaking through the pileup of a rare DXCC activation, or finding an antenna that satisfies your thirst for […]

DX Engineering recently had a customer report that he applied typical household window cleaner (e.g., Windex) to the TFT LCD (liquid-crystal display) of his Yaesu FTDX10, resulting in the touchscreen no longer working. For our answer on what you should use to clean screens with TFT, we went straight to the source. Here is what […]

I received the following message from Ken (AH9C) a couple of months ago and meant to turn it into a post to open the door to more suggestions from readers. Ken writes: Hi Thomas, I enjoy all the POTA content on your YouTube channel! It’s informative and helpful. I noticed you use several different keys […]

Sometimes portable operations aren’t so easy if the surroundings make antenna deployment problematic or if your location doesn’t allow you to throw an antenna in a tree. In those cases, make sure you have all your bases covered. The innovators at Carlson have a simple and sturdy option for getting a wire antenna safely in […]

by Mark (KB2PIZ) I just received the brand-new Lab599 TX-500MP via UPS yesterday and was really happy with the rig! It is solid, functional, and almost ready to go right out of the box! I was also in Rhode Island for business, and the place I was going to was on Woodville Alton Road. I […]

Find out how you can be a part of the research. Ham radio has been a powerful tool in the field of science. Data gathered from amateur radio activity was recently used to study the ionosphere during solar eclipses in 2023 and 2024 to see how they impacted radio signals. Now, HamSCI (Ham Radio Science […]

One of my favorite things about our hobby is that there are so many rabbit holes you can run down. Whatever your interests are, there is a niche in amateur radio to “scratch that itch.” I can often be heard saying to my club, “If you can’t find your rabbit hole in this hobby, you […]

I recently received this great question from reader Steven (K1KTF): First of all, love your videos since you’re the one who convinced me to get the KH1, which I thoroughly enjoy. I was wondering if you could recommend a portable, end-fed long wire and counterpoise for QRP that I can toss into my go-to bag. […]

Contesting Season will be here before you know it. In the meantime, August provides plenty of opportunities to hone your operating skills for the biggest events on the amateur radio calendar. The end of summer also provides a nice window of opportunity to make sure your station is in top shape for when the weather […]

Our friend Bryan Reed (AD8HK) recently wrote: “I have begun to sell both the 9:1 and 4:1 antennas on eBay.” Since I started using Bryan’s antennas in the field, many readers have asked where they could get one. Up until now, they were just a homebrew project Bryan made for himself and a few friends—but […]