PRESENTER OPINION : Button, Button. Who’s Got the Button? George KJ6VU Does. And So Can You!

PRESENTER OPINION : Button, Button. Who’s Got the Button? George KJ6VU Does. And So Can You!

Managing your ham radio station has become increasingly complex, to say the least. We have more complex transceivers with so many features that Computer-Aided Transceivers (CAT) are the norm in many circles. With this, both computer-based logging of QSOs with CAT control makes a PC de rigueur for many, many hams.

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PRESENTER OPINION : Would You Buy an Antenna Tuner from Amazon?

PRESENTER OPINION : Would You Buy an Antenna Tuner from Amazon?

I buy a fair amount of electronics stuff from Amazon. Not big items, but stuff like BNC-to-binding post adapters and the SMA-BNC adapters for my HTs. So, I shouldn’t have been surprised when I got an email from them three weeks ago titled, “KKmoon ATU-100 DIY Kits…” The email included link to two ATU-100 antenna tuner kits, several assembled antenna tuners, and three QRP antenna tuner kits.

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Indian ILLW Operation

Operators Ramesh/VU2LU, Sridhar/VU3GLS, Madhu/VU3NPI, Lion/VU2JHM, Krishnakumar/VU3UNO, Girish/VU3GDS, Murthy/VU2MTT (VU2VTI), Mahesh/VU3FDT, Srikanth/VU2SBJ and possibly many others will be active as AT8KLH from the Kapu Light House 'Kapu' (ARLHS WLOL IND-091) during the 24th Annual International Lighthouse/Lightship Weekend (ILLW) between August 21-22nd (48 hours).

QSL via VU2JHM.