Chesapeake Amateur Radio Service
FCC Callsign: W4CAR – Chesapeake, Virginia USA
You can’t see them, but they’re all around you. Nobody knows that better than hams, who mostly use the unseen radio waves for fun but who can also become the lifeline for communities that have lost the normal modes of communication in times of distress. KK4BJZ, otherwise known as Buck Read More …
Thank to Ed, KN4KL, the clamps have been replaced on the Log. Hopefully, this won’t have to be done for a long time to come.
The cold weather is here, so now is the time to start thinking and planning a new homebrew antenna project. If it’s a simple antenna your thinking of then I would go with a wire dipole antenna. It can be a multiband antenna or designed as a mono band for Read More …
This Saturday come and enjoy a good antenna presentation presented by Joe Ostrowski, KI5FJ at 11:00 AM at the QRM room in Chesapeake. Joe is the author of two award winning QST articles. October 2011 “A Remote Impedance Matching Network” and this past December’s “Orthogonal Loops – A Medium Wavelength Read More …
Dan Vanevenhoven N9LVS