Yazan: Norm Seeley | 14 January 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Amateur News, AMERICA, Antennas, Arizona, Base Stations, Part of Ham Radio, Scottsdale Arizona, Thoughts of KI7UP.
If you subscribe to CQ or QST, by now you have noticed that they have calendars for 2011 available. You have got to promise me, that you will not tell anyone connected with CQ or QST…the ARRL, that I went out last Saturday and purchased a calendar for my hopefully soon to be HAM Shack, [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 17 December 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Amateur News, AMERICA, Antennas, Arizona, Base Stations, Direction, HandHelds, Licenses, Miscellaneous, Mobiles, Part of Ham Radio, Scottsdale Arizona, Slow Down?, Support Equipment, Thoughts of KI7UP., Weather, What's Ham Radio
Here it is only 7 days away from Christmas Eve. The Picture is one I took on 12/08/2010, at the Desert Botanical Garden that is between Scottsdale and Phoenix. I wish that I could tell you that KI7UP will be on the air for Christmas 2010, but let’s be realistic. It’s not going to happen. [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 10 December 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Amateur News, AMERICA, Antennas, Arizona, Base Stations, Direction, HandHelds, Scottsdale Arizona
I had decided that I would not post any blogs during December because, I just felt lazy and had a couple other projects, sadly not money making that I felt there for awhile I had more interest in. However, after a couple of days, of just coming to ARD and looking at the links that [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 26 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: AMERICA, Antennas, Arizona, Base Stations, HandHelds, Mobiles, Part of Ham Radio, Scottsdale Arizona, Thoughts of KI7UP.
As I continue my quest to return to the air, I have found that there are two good sources of information. 1. QST Magazine 2. CQ Magazine Now don’t let the order bother you or fool you, they both do a good job covering Amateur Radio. I subscribe to both, and most likely will continue. [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 22 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: AMERICA, Antennas, Arizona, Base Stations, Direction, Scottsdale Arizona
Last Friday, I emailed my long time friend William Pasternak , who is the producer of Amateur Radio News line, (a link you can find on the right of this blog page) about another subject, but asked for his thoughts about me getting back on the air on 20 meters. One line that I think [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 17 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Amateur News, AMERICA, Antennas, Arizona, Scottsdale Arizona, Thoughts of KI7UP.
I want to get back on the air, using just one band, 20 meters to begin with. Couple posts ago , I listed the MFJ 9420X as the transceiver I was going for and still was looking into which antenna. I now have two ideas. 1. Going with an MFJ 2220 mounted about 10 feet [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 14 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Antennas, Scottsdale Arizona, Thoughts of KI7UP.
It’s my thought that the Antenna is the most important part of an Amateur set up. Doesn’t really matter what you are using as a transmitter, if you don’t have an antenna that does it’s job right, you might as well not go on the air, it would be better to just go into the [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 09 November 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Antennas, Arizona, Base Stations, HandHelds, Scottsdale Arizona
In the ARD Post of September 13th, I listed the gear that I wanted to get back on the Air as an amateur. ARD started back in April of 2010, and back then I thought for sure that I would be back on the air. Am I? NO! Because of that, not being on the [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 21 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Antennas
Tom Fagan, who is the Arizona Section Manager for the ARRL , put on his Facebook the 21st, a link to a video about an interesting antenna . The video has been out for over a year, but it’s the first time I have seen it, and maybe some of you viewers of ARD are [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 13 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: AMERICA, Antennas, Base Stations, Mobiles
Going backward a little but moving in a forward direction at the same time. The subject of the video is about my return to Amateur Radio and what gear I have picked to install here at my QTH and why. I had spent the majority of some 40 previous posts writing about what is accomplished [...]