Name is Dave and thanks for visiting my page. Competing interests and job responsibilities led to a ten plus year break from the radio hobby. During that earlier chapter in the hobby my interests were mostly VHF and above - satellites (AO-10, AO-13, PacSats), high speed meteor scatter and VHF contesting. Had great fun chasing the grid squares and rovers as well as homebrewing transverters, amplifiers and antennas.
So now this chapter in the hobby my interest is in the lower bands. As much as is possible my preference is to use wire antennas on 160 through 10 meters. I gave some thought to what would be a respectable approach to a multi band (160, 80, 40 & 20) wire antenna and settled on an off center fed dipole. A Gap Challenger dx is also in the antenna farm.
https://www.w8ji.com/ Outstanding technical contributor to the hobby - dispells common myths and folklore that's rampant in the hobby.
http://k9yc.com/publish.htm Another great technical resource for clarifying issues related common mode noise, receive systems, antenna performance, baluns etc.
http://hackgreensdr.org:8901/ Fun website to see if your making it over the pond.
http://www.dj0ip.de/ Practical solutions
http://w0qe.com/index.html SimSmith is one of my favorite programs and this is the guru.
