Zeb Palmer Writes…

Some of you may remember this post about me fixing my ATAS 120… Yeah, well, that didn’t last long.
It works better, but the thing is already starting to die on the lower bands again. Twenty meters seems to be working ok still, and everything above is tuning fine. But 40 meters is near impossible, and [...]

Occasionally I run APRS (automatic position reporting system) on VHF Ham Radio. If you’re not familiar with APRS it takes a gps signal and formulates it into a packet and transmits it via radio to be picked up by other stations and or gateways which put the packet onto an internet server for all to [...]

With a trip coming up this weekend and it being ham radio’s field day, I decided it’s time to take the second attempt at fixing my ATAS 120 automatic HF mobile antenna. Last time I took the base off and cleaned some corrosion out of it reseated some grounding screws and tried it. It worked [...]

I made it over to the Hamfest yesterday. Had a great time saw a bunch of people I hadn’t seen in quite some time. I almost made it out without buying anything. Seems like vendors were down a bit from previous years but that might have been my imagination. I spent about two hours making [...]

It’s stories like these that make me wish I still lived in Tornado country, or could visit more often. Classic example of how cooperation between NWS, Skywarn and local authorities is supposed to happen.
Dozens of Amateur Radio volunteers in New Mexico did what they do best Friday, March, 23, when nasty weather threatening eastern New [...]