Knut Magne Haugland, LA3KY, of Norway, passed away on December 25. He was 92. Haugland was one of six men, who with Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean in a 45 foot raft made of balsa wood and bamboo — named Kon-Tiki — to prove that people from South America could have…
W9EVT’s Shack in pictures (The biggest vintage collection)
Monster antennas were installed. Zone 40 now represented by TF4M super station. Photo TF4M Bravo Thor (!)
Many new things have been added / improved the most important are: Tuning Modes, automatically selects USB/LSB while you tune, independly for Perseus & Winradio, useful for MW TA-DX Frequency toggle and retaining (Playback Selector) now handles 1Hz values Database shortcuts increased to 8 (F5..F8, Shift F5..F8) Antennna switch suported in recording scheduler and via…
The “MAKE” magazine was published an interesting article (IMHO). Read below. Photo: “MAKE” My favorite ham activity is making contacts via satellites. Not only is there the romantic notion of sending messages into outer space, but you have to trace the orbit of the satellite with your antenna while tuning the radio, to compensate for…