KH6JRM's Amateur Radio Blog
How the time flies when you're having fun. Not that working in the radio station newsroom is all doom and gloom, but now that my weekend shift is just about over, I'm glad the cares of the world and our financially-strapped state can be left behind until early Monday morning when the news cycle begins anew. I'm happy to squeeze in a few hours of amateur radio operations--this provides a needed break from the concerns of the "real" world. The 40-meter loop beneath my house is doing well for a "cloud warmer". The noise level on this balanced lined antenna is very low and it's a joy to listen to contacts without the usual level of noise in my area. Proximity to power lines surely doesn't help, but the loop seems fairly insenstive to this type of vertically polarized rfi. The loop is great for my local Hawaii state contacts. The backyard vertical does alright for DX, considering the dinky lot that encloses my rental house. I'...