Playing with Antennas
I’m active again, and here’s a starting Facebook post:
I’m active again, and here’s a starting Facebook post:
My brother, Robert Neufeld, amateur radio operator N3AU, who also has pretty much every commercial radio license and is a lifetime electronics hobbyist, is going to host a zoom technical discussion each Thursday night at 8 pm eastern time. He plans to have it run around an hour +/- depending on what questions people have….
Why KT4B Blogs? I originally designed the header image I’m using for this site when I inherited my father’s callsign. When he passed away, I had an Advanced Class license as KE0OY. I tested for my Extra Class specifically to inherit that callsign. The header image was shown at my computer services company blog for…
Since I’m actually back on the air, I thought I’d post a couple of notes about where and how. First, here’s a picture of the shack before antenna cables. The Icom rig has two antenna inputs, and one now connects to a Hustler 6BTV vertical, which is tuned adequately on 10/15/20 Meters, but needs some…
I currently have an EchoLink link at 445.2, located in Cantonment. This is experimental and in a testing stage, but is up most of the time, and appears to be working. The call is KT4B/L. Output power is about 30 watts, and the antenna is just about 20 feet up.
I wasn’t involved, but the news story is nice. I am, however, finally able to operate fully on emergency power from the home shack.