Author Archives: WyleE

A New Year’s present? The mobile shack is coming!

I’ll be honest: 2022 was a shitty year. As if 2020 and 2021 weren’t bad enough. But relief may be in sight for some of the misery. Remember that semiconductor shortage? That  is going to be over soon! A local … Continue reading →

                    Good friend and long-time club member James WW5XX passed away April 6, 2022. He was 78. James died from complications of Covid. The official obituary was published by the Rushing-Estes … Continue reading →

I received an email from Steve VK5DOC last night. He shared the following: Hello there From the Land Down Under, We made contact on FT8 the other day, and I loved your club name 😊 This is my car In … Continue reading →

Building, repairing, replacing, fixing. It’s a joy to own a Spiderbeam. Jason KS5TX came down on Friday and fixed the beam all by himself. On Saturday. Daylight helps. Done before supper. And we were able to have some real fun … Continue reading →

All the best wishes for 2022! Can we have one without Covid this time? 73, Erik – K5WW (your rusty old secretary)

The mighty KS5TX sent a YouTube video link to the editor’s desk a few days ago. It’s a video made by HamRadioConcepts’ Eric KJ4YZI. The video is a few years old; but in it he discusses where to find RTTY … Continue reading →

After the recent replacement of the SpiderBeam Jason KS5TX just couldn’t resist to drive down to Uvalde and have some real fun in the Worked All Europe RTTY contest. “A bit late notice”, he said; but… I think he planned … Continue reading →

So… that new Spiderbeam? Somebody had to test it. Properly! Only candidate: yours truly, rusty K5WW. Who absolutely hates RTTY contests 😉 But: as luck would have it, the weekend after the new Spiderbeam was installed was also the weekend … Continue reading →

Way, way back in 2014 we installed our first HF beam antenna: the Heavy Duty 5 band version of the Spiderbeam designed by DF4SA – a guy with a wicked sense of humor.  We picked the Spiderbeam because of it’s … Continue reading →