Presenter Opinion - Handmade QSLs from the 1930s

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Presenter Opinion - Handmade QSLs from the 1930s

My brother, Mike, runs an estate sale company, Metro Detroit Estate Sales (shameless plug intended). From time to time, he’ll call me when a sale he’s conducting includes some electronics or ham radio gear.

A couple of months ago, he called and said that this most recent sale included a bunch of miscellaneous amateur radio-related stuff. The owner of the house, who passed away, was the daughter of W8HZN, and the estate included some of his logbooks, some old QSL cards from the 1930s, and some Popular Electronics magazines from the 1960s.

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Presenter Opinion - Initial Get S.M.A.R.T. @ the Library a Success→

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Presenter Opinion - Initial Get S.M.A.R.T. @ the Library a Success

Our first Get S.M.A.R.T. @ the Library event last Saturday (March 2, 2024) was a success. The Jackson ARC is holding quarterly Get S.M.A.R.T. events at the Madison (MS) Branch over 2024. Held at the Madison (MS) Branch of the Madison County Library System, we had 13 participants. Four declared that they were committed to getting their Technician license.

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PRESENTER OPINION : A Backpack Portable HF Beam? Yeah right!→

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PRESENTER OPINION : A Backpack Portable HF Beam? Yeah right!

It works! The two-element, two band (20 & 10m), single mast, HF Beam is finished at last and has brought in 20w SSB contacts with W, ZS, VK and ZL as well as most European countries from two SOTA activations in DL.

Sounds too good to be true? Well remember the physics of antennas don't really care whether equipment has got some big companies name on it or not, as long as it's the correct size and set up close to what is needed it'll work no matter how scruffy it looks and running low power means it can be made backpacker portable. I have created three different versions of the antenna, each of which can be single or multi-band.

My New years resolution was to finish this antenna and document it for others to build, despite some bad weather sessions (snow, winds, ice, rain etc.) I have now closed out this resolution.

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