📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale There is so much talk in our hobby about making that rare DX or a faraway contact using resonant beams and vertical antennas. While that’s great—and I think most of us find these contacts exhilarating—there are so may rabbit holes in this hobby beyond DXing. As I often say about amateur radio, if you can’t find your area of interest, you better check…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale Antennas may look simple—just a piece of metal in the air—but they are surprisingly sensitive to their surroundings. Nearby metal objects and trees can dramatically affect how an antenna performs, sometimes improving it, sometimes hurting it, and occasionally turning a perfectly good antenna into an expensive yard ornament. Radio waves don’t exist in isolation. Every antenna interacts with its environment. Houses, gutters, vehicles,…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale With May’s downpour of amateur radio activities done for the year, it’s time to focus on the next big event on the ham calendar—ARRL Field Day 2026. OnAllBands has been featuring gear you’ll want to consider adding to your Field Day (June 27-28) essentials, including: Upgraded coaxial assemblies LiFePO4 batteries, solar panels, and generators Band Pass Filters Portable wire and vertical antennas, including…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale The TX9W DXpedition from Hiva Oa in the Marquesas Islands (April 19-30) is in the books! The TX9W team, which included members of the Oklahoma DX Association, logged more than 26,600 CW, SSB, FT4, FT8, and RTTY QSOs from the village of Atuona during their stay on this second largest of the Marquesas Islands, an overseas territory of France in French Polynesia. It…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale When I earned my ham license at ten years old, my dad didn’t have his yet. A few weeks after passing my Technician exam, we attended a SKYWARN training session together. While we were signing in, I requested the amateur radio operator and non-amateur radio operator forms. The registration manager handed the “ham” sheet to my father and the other to me—then looked…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale Here’s What Some Experienced Hams Had to Say. *** DX Engineering’s Facebook page recently posed this question to its readers: HOA restrictions? Small space? What antenna setup is actually working for you? A flurry of excellent responses followed. Here are just a few: “I use the Alpha Antenna HOA Buster Gutter Antenna and an end-fed random wire, but I paint the wire the…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale There are a lot of things to love about Field Day. Noise on the air isn’t one of them. But like many aspects of amateur radio, finding the ideal ways to manage RFI on Field Day gives us the opportunity to flex our problem-solving muscles and tackle challenges that can make us better hams. Remember how excited Ralphie’s “Old Man” gets when he…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale Last time we looked at using WinLink as an infrastructure-free method of sending and receiving email. It’s a great tool that is proven and reliable. However, sometimes you need more than email, like live messaging and live sending and receiving of forms. Enter the Narrow Band Emergency Messaging System (NBEMS). NBEMS is an open-source software package that allows licensed amateurs to send data…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale Few antennas in amateur radio stir up as much debate as the end-fed antenna. Mention one at a club meeting, and you will immediately hear wildly different opinions. One ham will praise it as the greatest invention since coaxial cable. Another will claim it turns every appliance in the house into a touch lamp. A third will mutter, “common-mode current,” shake their head,…

📌 INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT — I diritti appartengono al legittimo proprietario. Fonte: onallbands.com — 🔗 Leggi l’articolo originale Much of what we talk about in amateur radio centers around a “bad day” scenario. Whether it’s a natural disaster, infrastructure failure or political unrest, we extol the virtues of how amateur radio will save the day. As amateur radio operators, we like to boast about how we have redundancy in our power system and a contingency plan for almost every situation. The…