Ham in a Can. – M5YRG

With our current ongoing situation … This gives me and possibly yourself a lot of time to think things up ????? Well this is one of these moments / ideas ……. ! Noticing that Jo (M0JOZ) had a growing ex drinking can collection growing in the kitchen see Figure 1. I wondered what else could

Dummy loads.

What are they, and what are they for? A dummy load takes the place of an antenna. It takes the transmitter power, and converts it to heat. Transmitters that are unable to output the power they have generated tend to suffer damage. When transmitter output stages used valves, they would withstand a “bad load” situation

Stubs

Stub…  Your toe, maybe, out pounding the pavement? Or maybe it has something to do with radio? At these difficult times, finding something useful to do can be quite challenging. Not the least of reasons being the fact that you can’t get to a radio rally and get a few odds and ends for the

Bluebell Loop Antenna

Greetings Everyone, Guess I finally “nailed” it. I built a couple of the mark two varieties, and not only do they work well, they also have survived a “drop test”, as they are a lot more robust! They are also smaller… This project is for a 2 metre “magnetic” loop. It works very well for