When I began construction of a dedicated 8-Circle Receive Array antenna system for the low bands (160m – 40m) some time ago (see part one in this series for details), I knew that I’d have to locate the new antenna system as far away from my tower and other transmitting antennas as possible to avoid … Continue reading
A little ways back, John (W1MBG) discovered our Blog and approached us about doing a presentation for the Nashua Area Radio Club (NARC) on the design, construction, and operation of our recently completed station. The NARC group invited us to their March meeting where we shared our presentation with the nice group of folks in … Continue reading
I participated in the 2013 ARRL DX Phone Contest from our recently completed New Hampshire, USA shack. This was my first serious effort in a Phone contest, and I participated in the Single-Operator, High Power Assisted category within the W/VE segment of the contest. We have been enhancing our station’s contesting hardware and software recently. … Continue reading
The next step in the design of our new antenna system and the tower was to perform a High-Frequency Terrain Analysis (HFTA) for our specific QTH. An excellent explanation of how to use HFTA and the required SW can be found in the ARRL Antenna Book. HFTA uses coordinates and information about the planned antennas … Continue reading
We have begun the assembly of the first of our two SteppIR DB36 Yagis. These antennas are large, complex machines that take some time to assembly properly and I plan to cover this part of our project in multiple posts. I will provide more pictures and details on this part of our project in hopes … Continue reading
