Understanding SWR
This decades-old video from Bell Labs gives the best explanation of SWR (standing wave ratio) I have ever seen. I enjoyed it so much I thought I would share it here.
Using the AI Tool “RM Noise” with the Flex 6400
As I was preparing to teach my winter 2024 course, IPT515 Artificial Intelligence for Instructional Designers (at Brigham Young University), I started thinking, “surely by now someone is applying AI to amateur radio.” It didn’t take a lot of Googling…
Synchronizing Logs Between WSJT-X and JTDX
After conversations with friends in the WVDXA, I’ve begun using JTDX for working DX on FT8. Upon launching JTDX, however, I was immediately annoyed at the fact that it knew nothing about the thousands of QSOs I had already made…
How I Passed the Amateur Extra Exam – And How You Can, Too
Once I earned my General license in January of 2021, I didn’t imagine I would ever go for an Extra license. I heard several people say that the Amateur Extra exam was significantly more difficult than the General exam. And…
Getting the Biggest Bang for Your Buck on an HF Radio – with Statistics!
This video is absolutely amazing. Frank Howell K4FMH uses data from the massive eHams review database and Rob Sherwood’s massive collection of performance measurements to build statistical models that answer the question, “which HF radio gives the biggest bang for…
