Since building a 6m coaxial dipole in January 2016 and later a 2m coaxial dipole in February 2018, I have often thought how a monoband half-wave vertical coaxial dipole would perform on 28 MHz. Summer is here in the southern hemisphere, therefore now is an excellent time to construct a 10m half-wave coaxial dipole for…
Friday 1 February 2019 – Today is the 6th anniversary of SOTA in VK1 and to celebrate the occasion four VK1 SOTA activators are heading for the hills; Bill VK1MCW, Tony VK1VIC, Dermy VK1FDHA and myself. My plan is to activate Mount McDonald 17 km west of Canberra GPO. Elsewhere in VK3 a contingent of…
Do you have a passion for homebrew portable HF antennas and antenna impedance matching devices, commonly known in the radio amateur community as Antenna Tuning Units (ATU) or in parts of the northern hemisphere as Aerial Matching Unit (AMU)? …then read on else leave this page now. The term ‘Tuning Unit’ is far from the…
What can a SOTA fanatic do with a broken plastic coat hanger? Good question you ask! During a recent visit to Melbourne I broke the hook section of a plastic coat hanger, which at the time I cursed as I didn’t have a spare. For some bizarre reason I threw the broken coat hanger in…
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