A week or so I was inspired by a post on a forum I frequent to build a nixie clock. If you don’t know what a nixie tube is, the best way for me to explain it is to reproduce the first few sentences from Wikipedia. A nixie tube is an electronic device for displaying […]
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Building a dummy load
Some time ago I decided that I really ought to have a dummy load in the shack. I used to own a very good BNOS load a long time ago but I really have no idea what happened to it. At some time it probably was either sold or stashed in the loft, I really […]
Building a 40m (7MHz) horizontal delta loop
Over the last few weeks I’ve spent quite a lot of time reading about different options for wire HF aerials and one kept coming back into my head as being something I could easily try at this QTH – A full wavelength horizontal ‘delta’ loop for 40m. My garden is the right sort of size […]
