Yazan: Norm Seeley | 07 February 2011 | No Comments
Categories: AMERICA, Antennas, Arizona, Base Stations, Scottsdale Arizona, Thoughts of KI7UP.
Since the antenna was put up, I have been spending an hour or more at different times of the day, monitoring…listening to the 3 bands that the antenna was cut for. 40 Meters. 20 Meters and 10 Meters. It has been years since I have even had a receiver to listen to the ham bands [...]
Yazan: Norm Seeley | 20 January 2011 | No Comments
Categories: AMERICA, Antennas, Arizona, Base Stations, Scottsdale Arizona, Thoughts of KI7UP.
Before I tell you what happened. I want to thank a couple of fellow hams. My thanks go out to Terry Ryan KE7GRV who helped me with a 220 1960s Pop-Rock Music and TV Shows Net. Let me also thank Tom Fagan K7DF, the ARRL Section Manager who has loaned me an ICOM 707 and [...]
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 | 26 December 2010 | No Comments
Categories: AMERICA, Scottsdale Arizona
My sweet wife Karen got home from the Hospital shortly before 5 tonight. It’s so nice to have her home.
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 [...]