I’ve been driving for a week or so with the new HotRodz capacity hat and MM-1 auto transformer (pictured). As far as I can tell so far, the system seems to be working. Propagation has been pathetic lately, but I did get a chance to have a QSO with J79XBI on Dominica in the Windward [...]
DX Engineering HotRodz, First Impressions
A package arrived yesterday afternoon from DX-Engineering containing:
DXEngineering Hot Rodz
Hustler Safety Spring
DXE-MM-1 dual impedance antenna auto/transformer
A DX Engineering Hat
Of course, the first problem was answering the XYL’s question “You bought another antenna for the car?”.
“It’s not really another antenna… it’s a replacement for the whip on top.”
“Looks like an antenna to [...]
The blizzard here in central Iowa has left me some free time for programming.
DXpedition Map
The first in line for an update was the DXpedition map. For some reason, this drew the attention of some lids http://www.eham.net/links/rating/10338 who took the opportunity to bash the page. Either they:
haven’t figured out what the page was about (don’t know [...]
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