While Dayton Hamvention® is an amazing event for young hams, Contest University (CTU) held the Thursday before the event is not to be missed! CTU has something to offer every ham regardless of contesting skill level. It’s a valuable opportunity for anyone looking to improve their contesting skills or just general operating skills. I attended […]
Heading to HamX 2025!
As I write this, I’m sitting at Philadelphia International Airport waiting for the last, short leg of my flight to Worcester, Massachusetts. This weekend I’ll be at the Northeast HamX (Ham Exposition) in Marlborough, Massachusetts. It’s my first time attending this event, and I’ve been eager to experience it. I’ll also be presenting at the […]
Products Spotlight: New Amateur Radio Gear from Moonraker
DX Engineering now carries more than 85 items from Moonraker, a U.K.-based company that has been a trusted provider of radio communication equipment for more than 40 years. Today we’re highlighting a range of Moonraker products, from dual-band base vertical antennas to center insulators and a switching desktop power supply. They were all featured in […]
Contesting 101: The Contesting Community
Editor’s note: OnAllBands is pleased to post a series of articles written by accomplished amateur radio contester and DX Engineering customer/technical support specialist Kirk Pickering, K4RO. The articles, originally published in the National Contest Journal and updated with current information, offer valuable insights for both contesters new and old. It’s a Contester Thing For this entry of […]
QRP POTA at Cap Tourmente: Testing and (Slowly) Trimming the New RadioPrep End-Fed Half-Wave
On Monday, June 30, 2025, the skies finally cleared after a couple of days of steady rain in the Côte de Beaupré region of Québec, where we were staying. Of course, I wanted to take advantage of the beautiful weather by heading into the field and activating my favorite local POTA site: Cap Tourmente. That […]
Common Ham Radio Myths You’d Like to Bust
Sometimes we ask a question on social media that gets amateur operators truly fired up. This often involves a question about FT8—a subject that is sure to raise the hackles on those who are both advocates and naysayers of this popular digital mode. Last month, though, it was this benign query on DX Engineering’s Facebook […]
It’s All in the Cards! QSL Cards from the North Cook Islands
DX Engineering sponsors upcoming E51MWA DXpedition Hey, DXers, be sure to mark your calendars for Oct. 9-20, 2025. That’s when the six-operator E51MWA team is scheduled to be active from Manihiki Atoll (population 200 or so) in the North Cook Islands—the 68th Most Wanted DXCC Entity per Clublog as of August 2025. The E51MWA team […]
KN2M: Spiderbeam Fiberglass Pole Seaside Mount Prototype
by Dave (KN2M) Knowing that proximity to salt water offers great advantages to communications via the Brewster Angle, I looked for a simple way to operate my KX3 on the beach during a recent vacation trip to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. My antenna choice was the W9SAB EFHW antenna 3 wire section 10-80m choice found on […]
Two for Two x 2-fer
by Brian (K3ES) Steve – KE3Z and Brian – K3ES have very similar, but not identical, operating styles. We both focus on low power CW mode operations. Brian mostly uses wire antennas, and Steve has great success with verticals. We have had some great POTA adventures over the last year, especially after Steve transitioned from […]
Watch a Three-State POTA Rove Using the Versatile REZ Scout Antenna System (Video)
Want to know why you should seriously consider adding a portable antenna system from REZ to your arsenal for Parks on the Air® (POTA) activations? Because it was the POTA program—and the pursuit of finding easy-to-deploy and high-performance antenna solutions for activating parks—that inspired Mike Giannaccio, W5REZ, to establish REZ Antenna Systems, whose lineup of […]