Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 427

Amateur Radio Weekly

This weekend is Field Day
Field Day is Ham Radio’s open house.
ARRL

Field Day site locator
Find a Field Day event near you.
ARRL

LinHT Rev B status
What works, what broke, and why Rev C is next.
Zero Retries

Testing the new Tufteln Reel Antenna
The antenna is built directly into the reel itself.
QRPer

CQ Magazine archives
From its first issue in January 1945 up to present.
HamCall.net

World’s cheapest QRP antenna “tuner”?
A 6dB attenuator guarantees that the worst case SWR seen by the transmitter is no more than 1.67:1.
WB4SON

The contrast between old and new ways to communicate
A Mac Mini meets a Morse Code key.
Andrew Woodward

How to run AllStar on the Arduino UNO Q
The Arduino UNO Q is a compact, Qualcomm-powered single-board computer running full Debian Linux.
EtherHam

RFI found and removed
I noticed an offending signal on the Icom IC-7610 waterfall. The noise repeated approximately every 15 kHz.
VE9KK

OTA updates by drone
OTA updating hard to reach nRF52 based repeaters with a drone.
Meshcore.io

Video

Bringing 2m CW to the Quansheng
Enabling amazingly good Morse Code on affordable VHF/UHF radios.
SOTA+ and Brian Maybe Media

The final transmission of CHU shortwave radio
CHU shortwave went off the air on June 22, 2026 at 14:10 UTC.
Shortwave Listener

Testing antennas with NanoFarField Portable Antenna Lab
It took a bit of fiddling to set the thing up, and we had to find a big open field to use it, but this was a neat way to visualize antenna performance.
saveitforparts

Gangster 2m VHF antenna roof installation
Antenna installation how-to.
N7KOM

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