Rebuilding the radio room
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Big plans for the radio “shack” at VA7ST… will it ever be built?
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Adding the Ameritron AL-80B to the shack
The VA7ST station has a new contesting amplifier — the Ameritron AL-80BX joins a pair of SB-221 amplifiers for high-power operation. See how they matched up in the DRCG Worldwide RTTY contest, and general thoughts about both approaches to QRO contesting.
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Introducing the Zone Zero podcast
It’s time for a podcast devoted to amateur radio contests. Now we have one. Welcome to Zone Zero.
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New radio room is on the air
After two years of “all talk, no action,” the radio room has been rebuilt.
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Heathkit SB-221 brought back to life
An overview of my SB-221 amplifier repair project — a notebook about what it needed and what I did.
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The Large and Powerful Spider Beam
Here’s a homemade, lightweight but full-size triband yagi (with directors and reflectors in V configuration) interlaced on a 32-foot boom. And it works like a dream.
