KO7M - Ham Radio Blog

Listening to AM broadcast band tonight and am hearing Canadian stations, quite strongly.  31 and 49 metre bands are quite active this evenin...

Been playing around with crystal radios lately.  I have a loose coupled radio that consists of a pre-selector tuned circuit, a detector with...

...when you combine a dog bumper launcher... ...with a 22 caliber blank cartridge loaded in the handle of this rather innocuous looking...

I have been getting the itch to try out a horizontal loop antenna for some time now.  At the recent Salmoncon event, Eldon - WA0UWH put up a...

Been a long time since I have been blogging at all.  Happy to say it is because I have been very busy with the new job and getting settled i...

It is a beautiful sunny warm summer day in Seattle.  Been out this morning enjoying the sun and running errands.  I have fired up the Raspbe...

Hello out there.  It seems that I have slowed down sufficiently on the job search to play a little this afternoon with radio related stuff. ...

Well, it seems I will be having more time to melt solder and sort things out in my shack as I recently lost my job due to reductions in forc...

We seem to have a broken connection to the antenna jack...  :(

Hmmm...  Anyone see a problem here? Bogus...