Back in April of 2023, I wrote an article about getting accurate location data into TQSL for uploading QSOs to LoTW. In that article, I described creating a new station location for each portable operating location. This is inconvenient and difficult to manage if you do a lot of portable operating. I have since learned…
This is a follow-up to my previous article on the POTAPlus web browser extension. With the help of “ham-proxy-app.exe” and Omnirig, POTAPlus provided rig control to QSY to POTA spots and set the correct mode. With ham-proxy-app.exe, POTAPlus would also log your contact and add your spot to POTA. As you may recall, POTAPlus did…
This is a follow-up to my previous article on the POTAPlus web browser extension. With the help of “ham-proxy-app.exe” and Omnirig, POTAPlus provided rig control to QSY to POTA spots and set the correct mode. With ham-proxy-app.exe, POTAPlus would also log your contact and add your spot to POTA. As you may recall, POTAPlus did…
This is a short followup to my previous article on antenna interactions. My original plan was to mount two wire antennas on a sidearm on the tower. The first is an 80M / 60M fan dipole mounted in an inverted vee configuration and the second is an 80M EFHW mounted as a sloper. I have…
If you have listened to Dave Casler on YouTube or read his column in QST, you probably know his first rule of antennas: “everything affects everything”. I recently had an eye-opening, learning experience when installing a couple of 80M wire antennas. While I thought that there could be some interaction between the antennas, I never…