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It has now been a little over one year since my last repair on the Steppir BigIR with 80m coil kit. ZERO problems in this time 🙂 As I posted one year ago, I...
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At the beginning of February my Steppir Biggir with 80m coil kit failed again. That was the bad news. The good news is that we can learn from failure. I now believe that I...
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Update April 2021 I now believe that I know exactly what has caused these failures. It is NOT the manufacturer’s fault ! Jump to the ‘solution’ here https://blog.secondhandradio.com/2021/02/steppir-biggir-failed-again/ the first 6 articles in this...
Update April 2021 I now believe that I know exactly what has caused these failures. It is NOT the manufacturer’s fault ! Jump to the ‘solution’ here https://blog.secondhandradio.com/2021/02/steppir-biggir-failed-again/ the first 6 articles in this...
Update April 2021 I now believe that I know exactly what has caused these failures. It is NOT the manufacturer’s fault ! Jump to the ‘solution’ here https://blog.secondhandradio.com/2021/02/steppir-biggir-failed-again/ the first 6 articles in this...
UPDATE April 2021 I now believe that I know exactly what has caused these failures. It is NOT the manufacturer’s fault ! Jump to the ‘solution’ here https://blog.secondhandradio.com/2021/02/steppir-biggir-failed-again/ the first 6 articles in this...
UPDATE April 2021 I now believe that I know exactly what has caused these failures. It is NOT the manufacturer’s fault ! Jump to the ‘solution’ here https://blog.secondhandradio.com/2021/02/steppir-biggir-failed-again/ The first 6 articles in this...
I do not know what caused this disaster to begin. I will assume that somewhere along the line I did something wrong. Why? Because I had been happily using the Steppir Biggir with 80...
Do you remember a few times in your life thinking that someone might be thinking what your are thinking? Though we are at the bottom of the worst sunspot cycle in my life (6...
I have received this email, or very similar, several times this year. Obviously written by someone (or someoneS) that do not have basic understanding of physics, electricity, etc. My comments are in red. Subject:...
How to Ruin Your Hamfest (swapmeet) Find someone that is completely unfamiliar with your state AND cannot read a map. Then put him in charge of hamfest “talk-in”. Your club can earn bonus points...
Starting a new project and you are wondering what RF connector would be most appropriate? Found an interesting webpage that has a simple, quick, clear, chart which shows us the maximum frequency range for...
Very interesting….. the United States Department of Energy has sponsored research that has successfully ‘mined’ uranium from the ocean. Real world tests will begin soon. At first reading, this seems to me to be...