This year, I decided rather impulsively to participate in the CQ WW SSB-contest. I was actually ill-prepared; only in the first few hours of participating, I installed the contest software, Not1MM. I also quickly recorded the audio samples for the voice keyer on the radio itself. All far from ideal, but I still felt like…
End Fed Half Wave
A controversial topic: the End Fed Half Wave! For years now I wasn’t a big fan of the End Fed Half Wave (EFHW). Simple because an end fed wire picks up more static, isn’t more efficient then let’s say a mono band dipole (so I thought) and generally speaking suffers more from RFI. But after…
Visit Grimeton Radiostation Sweden
At the end of our holiday in Sweden this summer, we stayed in Haverdal, about 50 minutes driving of Grimeton Radiostation in Varberg. This one I did have to visit of course. History In 1895 the Italian physicist and later Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) had realized wireless telegraphy, i.e. the possibility of transmitting…