Don’t Forget the Band Pass Filters on Field Day
ARRL Field Day (June 27-28, 2020) can be a challenge if you’re not properly prepared. One of the biggest obstacles to a successful Field Day can be setting up multiple […]
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Staying at Home? Turn Your Attention to Troubleshooting and Upgrading Your Amateur Radio Station
While you’re home, now’s a good time to start thinking about nagging station issues you’ve never had the time to resolve. You could also venture outside (practicing prescribed social distancing, […]
Products & Product Reviews
Maxi-Core® 20 Baluns and Feedline Chokes Usher in New Era of RF Performance
Maxi-Core® 20 Baluns and Feedline Chokes reduce or eliminate currents on the outside of your feedline allowing you to hear and to be heard much better. They keep more RFI/BCI […]
Technical Articles
Baluns vs. Impedance Transformers
There is a lot of confusion about baluns—where you need to use one, what the balun is supposed to accomplish, and even what a balun really is! The term “balun” […]
Technical Articles
Station Improvements: Inside During the Winter
Station repairs and upgrades can take place all year round, inside and out. That said, Hams who live where the chilly winds blow and the snow flies during the winter […]
Technical Articles
Troubleshooting Hum, Buzz, Crosstalk, and RF Pickup
Hams are typically less precise in their use of technical terms than are professional engineers and technicians. Nowhere is this more true than in descriptions of signals contaminated with unwanted […]
Clifton Labs
Designing an Easy Broadband RF Transformer
(Editor’s Note: The following article is from the archives of experimenter, inventor, friend of the Ham Radio community, and founder of Clifton Laboratories, Jack Smith, K8ZOA (SK).) In working on an […]
Technical Articles
Inductor Selection: Manufacturers Part Numbers
Amateurs have long used the Amidon (www.amidoncorp.com) part numbering system for ferrite and powdered iron toroid cores. For powdered iron cores, the Amidon part number begins with a T and […]
Technical Articles
Inductor Selection: Design Sensitivities
When you start designing your own circuits, one of the biggest challenges is not obtaining component values, but choosing from many different types of components all having the same value! […]
Clifton Labs
Inductor Selection for an AM Band Reject Filter
(Editor’s Note: The following article is from the archives of experimenter, inventor, friend of the Ham Radio community, and founder of Clifton Laboratories, Jack Smith, K8ZOA (SK).) One project I’ve been […]
