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10/02/2009 | Paul Danzer, N1II, Wins September QST Cover Plaque Award

The winner of the QST Cover Plaque Award for September is Paul Danzer, N1II, for his article "A Simple Transformer to Measure Your Antenna Current." Congratulations, Paul! The winner of the QST Cover Plaque award -- given to th
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09/28/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Slippery-Slope Television

It all started because Chuck, N0EIS, told me to set up a SSTV (slow scan television) station.
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09/24/2009 | Force 12, C-3S — Adding the Fifth Band

As mentioned in a previous article, the Force C-3S is a very robust Yagi and its design is ideal for extending coverage up to five bands by application of linear resonator techniques. One of the attractive design features is that the Force 12 antenna uses
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08/07/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update

We had some nice sunspot activity from July 3-10 -- and we were hoping for a return 27-28 days later -- but it never happened. Varying by latitude, the Sun rotates relative to Earth about every 27.5 days. If that same region was still active or the activi
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07/02/2009 | The Amateur Amateur: Please Answer the Following Question

Like many other ARES groups, St Louis County ARES has a weekly 2 meter voice net. It's a directed net, so there isn't much chit-chat. It's very business-like. And no doubt very dull, you're thinking.
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07/02/2009 | What's New at Dayton 2009: The Unabridged Version

The July 2009 issue of QST had a one page overview of some of the major pieces of equipment introduced at the Dayton Hamvention®. There is no way a single person can track down everyt
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06/25/2009 | Doubling Up on Field Day

As most any ham knows, Field Day is by far the most popular operating event of the ham-land calendar. Every June thousands of radio amateurs pack up or set up in some way to participate in this wonderful event.
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06/03/2009 | Why Join an Amateur Radio Club

Why should you join an Amateur Radio club? I can think of many reasons. The first and foremost one is the opportunity to meet and get to know other ham operators in your community. There are almost one million Amateur Radio operators in the United States,
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