At the club meeting, I ran out of those little tubes of blue connector dressing. Since we are not meeting for a while, I don’t have an easy way to distribute more of them quickly. But my call, W7DB, is good on QRZ.com, and if you are in Layton and want to pick one up
Joe Giraudo – N7JEH I enjoy puttering in my shop. I am also a cheapskate. With the onset of the 2026 wildland fire season, Rock Mountain Power announced that planned preventative power outages could be anticipated during high wind conditions to reduce power line induced wildland fires. This got me to think about what are
Denton’s Corner Whimsy is at the end of the article. Fun With Ferrites At one of our meetings, Joe pointed out that coaxial cable really has three conductors: the inner conductor, the inner surface of the shield, and the outer surface of the shield. This can lead to problems with unwanted currents as the coax
A Bit of Whimsy You may be an old timer ifYour joints are slow and stiff,You remember Heath,Have two false teeth,And are happily radio-active.(If you’re not an old timer, just give it a while.) Thoughts on Winlink for EmComms Sometimes I listen to the Beehive Utah Net, which meets daily on 7272 KHz at 12:30
A Small Dose of Whimsy There was a DXer named PhilWho craved a test of his skill.He made a stacked rhombic beamTo fulfill his big dreamOf DX from Seville to Brazil. The Discovery of Direct View Storage Technology You’ve probably all seen a conventional analog oscilloscope display, where an electron beam traces out a wave
Today’s Whimsy My usual mental fountain of limericks is on vacation in Bora Bora at the moment, so here is a bit of whimsy from the May, 1944 QST. QST had a sense of humor. Who knew? The Radar ManIf you should see upon the streetA man equipped with dipole feetAnd a family of curves
Today’s Whimsy My Elmer had a rig with an Eddystone dialAnd was often at the bottom of a DX pile.A new tall beamPerfected his scheme,And contacts aplenty filled his QSL file. EFHW, The End Fed Half Wave The end fed halfwave is currently a very popular antenna, especially for portable operation. I modestly claim to
Today’s Whimsy There was a young donkey named Sam Who ate everything he could scam He ingested a 16 foot wire, Climbed a small hill to get higher, And found he was resonant on the 10 meter band. A Bit About Vertical Antennas Vertical antennas are both praised and damned, with some users complaining that
Today’s Whimsy There was a Technician named Stu Who grew weary of gabbing on 2. A license upgrade Made his mournfulness fadeAnd opened a new world to his view. Once In A Lifetime: Being DX At Heath, part of my job was keeping the computer and test equipment product lines filled with items people needed.
We are very excited to announce our October Club meeting. At our meeting we will be please to hear from Ember Herrick, our Davis County Emergency Manager, who will discuss with us Emergency Management in Davis County and an upcoming simulation. Please join us on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM. We will meet