@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoToday's #HamRadio project was making elevated radials for an HF vertical. I have a 25' whip, a JPC-12, and some random parts I made. My idea is to have more efficient elevated radials, but unlike ground-coupled radials, elevated radials need to be tuned.
I thought this would take me 1–2 hours.
It took about 5 hours.
When you have ground-coupled radials, you have only o…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoThis morning was my first experience of teaching a #HamRadio study course to prepare prospective hams to take the Technician test. Unlike @…, we don't fit it into one day; we are doing three successive Saturdays, with testi…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoWhile Rob Sherwood is unlike to test the QRP-Labs QMX as far as I know, #HamRadio
@cdarwin@c.im @mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoToday I learned about #HamRadio
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI've seen so many excited (or annoyed) notices about the changes to the 60m #HamRadio band in the US. Many of them seemed to think that they were in effect already (wrong) and those that didn't make that mistake would just say "soon" (not helpful).
It turns out that 13 February 2026 is the day that you can use the additional band allocation on you…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoMy #HamRadio #POTA fun today was activating US-1904 Myakka River State Park on 20m and 17m, with 5W CW, on my new edition o…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI post a lot here and on Maker Forums Discourse, and have kind of not gotten around to blogging for a while. But today I had time to reflect on my first full year of #HamRadio — this new hobby has surprised me in a lot of (good) ways.
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoHere is a complete description of the changes that are coming for the US #HamRadio Technician exam on 1 July 2026:
https://gist.github.com/taxilian/c6fca675a58fd4b165e…