BVRC SIGNAL ARTICLES BY TOPIC 2018-2025

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ANTENNAS
20-METER VERTICAL ANTENNA MAY 2025 16
20-METER VERTICAL ANTENNA, PART 2 JUNE 2025 22
An Inexpensive Homebrew Satellite Antenna SEP 2022 19
Antenna Gain Profile For A Fox Hunt Antenna SEP 2025 19
Basic Horizontal Antennas For Worldwide Communication NOV 2024 12
Basics of High Frequency Vertical and Beam Antennas, The SEP 2022 22
Best Antenna For The Job, The OCT 2025 25
Choosing An HF Vertical Antenna NOV 2023 19
Counterpoise for Your Handheld, A FEB 2020 23
Discone Antenna, The AUG 2018 9
Experiments With 2-Meter Antennas OCT 2025 20
Hanging A Wire Antenna FEB 2019 17
Improved Roof Mount For The 20-Meter Half Wave Vertical NOV 2025 23
LoG Antenna, The APR 2020 21
Par Electronics 6-Meter Antenna, The OCT 2022 17
Simple 10-Meter Antenna, A MAR 2025 24
Simple RF Antenna Choke, A OCT 2022 22
The Windom Off-Center Fed Dipole Antenna FEB 2020 14
Trimming Your Dipole Antenna MAR 2019 11
Ugly Balun That Worked, The AUG 2018 13
Wouff Hang Antenna, N5SU Version DEC 2019 12
Your First Dipole Antenna FEB 2019 7
EQUIPMENT
10 Uses For A Multi-meter JULY 2025 14
Amateur Radio Amplifiers APR 2023 27
Anderson PowerPole Connectors SEP 2024 26
Baluns – What They Are, What They Do JULY 2025 23
Building An Iambic Key From A Kit NOV 2018 6
Choosing A Transceiver For The HF Bands JUN 2024 25
Do You Need An Antenna Tuner? APR 2025 21
Exploring Christmas Chasing Lights DEC 2025 22
How To Calculate Battery Life MAY 2025 19
Is Your Baofeng Real Or Fake? JAN 2025 23
Lead Acid Batteries for Amateur Use JUL 2020 9
Parts APR 2025 16
Review: Ruoshui 4080 Handheld L C R Meter FEB 2025 11
Setting-Up Your First Station APR 2022 17
What Coax Do I Use? NOV 2019 21
OPERATING
10-Meter AM/FM With The AnyTone AT-500M MAY 2023 23
10-Meter FM JAN 2023 24
Antarctica Callsigns MAY 2024 11
Apprehensive About CW? – Don’t Be NOV 2024 18
Becoming a Ham Radio Master APR 2020 29
BVRC Communications Outreach Team – Share & Care Golf Tourney OCT 2025 12
BVRC Communications Outreach Team – Summer Sizzler Run OCT 2025 14
Bvrc Community Outreach Team – Preparedness Fair NOV 2025 19
BVRC Community Outreach Team – Spooky Sprint & Turkey Trails DEC 2025 17
BVRC Field Day 2025 Story AUG 2025 12
BVRC Participates In Maker Faire 2025 OCT 2025 13
Callsignology – The Science Of Callsigns SEP 2024 31
Carving-Out Time For Ham Radio DEC 2018 7
Chasing The Cheetah: A 15 Park Pota Mad Dash APR 2025 10
Contesting – An Irritant or A Means to Operating Better? JUN 2023 16
Contesting Tips JUL 2024 21
CW – The Attraction In Today’s High Tech World MAR 2024 18
Discover The Excitement Of FT-8 OCT 2024 25
DMR – The Choice APR 2018 5
DX Code of Conduct, The DEC 2022 22
DXCC – The Most Prestigious Award In Amateur Radio SPE 2025 26
DXpeditions – Rare and Exciting MAR 2023 24
Field Day – Urban Myths and Legends JUN 2022 14
For The Love Of QRP OCT 2018 7
FT8 – Determining Fox/Hound or Multi-Stream Mode FEB 2024 21
Get To Know Your Ham Bands NOV 2022 23
Get To Know Your Ham Bands OCT 2025 30
Getting On Slow Scan TV APR 2023 20
Good Operating Procedures For New Hams APR 2023 32
Ham Radio Definitions – A Quick Guide JUL 2024 9
Have You Worked-All-Continents? SEP 2023 21
HF Mobile Contesting – Part 1 OCT 2024 17
HF Mobile Contesting – Part 2 NOV 2024 13
HF Radio Propagation and Sunspots FEB 2023 29
How To Get DXCC And Other Confirmations JUL 2024 23
How to Prepare for an Emergency MAY 2020 19
Importance Of Phonetics, The JUL 2025 17
Know the Radio Amateur’s Code! OCT 2020 5
Learn CW in 2025? DEC 2024 13
Listening to Multiple SDRs JAN 2022 18
Making Sense Of Propagation Forecasts JUN 2025 33
Mini-Pota Adventure, A JUL 2025 26
N3FJP Logging Software Review NOV 2023 22
N5T Train Mobile Special Event Station JUN 2025 26
New Arrl Dxcc Trident Award NOV 2025 26
New FT-8 SuperFox Mode AUG 2024 11
Operating 2-Meter Single Sideband SEP 2022 14
Pitcairn Island May Be Easier To Work In The Future APR 2025 31
Portable Operation is Fun! JUN 2020 4
Q-Signal List JAN 2019 20
QSL Cards – Printing, Storing, Organizing, & Displaying OCT 2023 23
Receiving NOAA Satellite Pictures Live From Space AUG 2022 22
Repeater Etiquette and Protocol JUN 2018 11
Running Split Mode SEP 2023 25
Solar Max – Is A Second Peak Coming? MAY 2025 29
Special Event / Pota Station JUN 2025 10
Special Event Stations AUG 2019 16
To Upgrade Or Not To Upgrade – That Is The Question DEC 2024 19
Tools For Sending Morse Code JAN 2025 18
Top Ten Reasons To Try Morse Code, The FEB 2025 20
Vanity Callsigns MAY 2018 15
What Are Dxcc Deleted Entities? MAR 2025 25
What Is CW? SEP 2024 34
What is D-Star? OCT 2019 16
What Is Greylining? MAY 2019 3
What is UTC and How Does It Work? OCT 2019 11
Wide World Of Radiosport, The NOV 2024 28
Winter Field Day 2025 MAR 2025 19
Work The World On 10 Meters! JUL 2023 18
Working 6-Meter FT8 SEP 2023 19
TECHNICAL
All-Pass Filters MAY 2018 5
Buck Converters MAR 2025 16
Change Your Shack’s Quartz Clock To Atomic AUG 2024 16
Connecting Devices to a Transmitter Keying Line – 1 JUN 2022 16
Connecting Devices to a Transmitter Keying Line – 2 AUG 2022 19
Damaged Screws on Radio Equipment APR 2022 10
How To Test/Repair Your Feedline With Rig Expert MAY 2023 26
Invention of Smith Charts, The MAY 2018 11
Modular Connectors MAY 2022 11
Repurposing Old PL-295 Connectors MAR 2022 17
RFI – How To Put Your Shack Enemy On The Run FEB 2023 25
SimSmith – Making the Smith Chart Fun JUN 2018 14
HISTORY
Birth of Radio, The APR 2018 6
Christmas Ham Story, A DEC 2018 12
Coast Station KPH AUG 2019 10
CQ Hollywood? FEB 2024 9
CW History: Abraham Lincoln and the Telegraph JAN 2022 29
Early Broadcasting Pioneer – Norman G. Baker APR 2024 19
Get Concise Weather Alerts With S.A.M.E. Weather Radios APR 2023 30
Great Little Museum In Our Own Back Yard, The AUG 2018 14
Hedy Lamarr – Hollywood Star or Radio Scientist? SEP 2022 21
K5A Special Event Station Story, The SEP 2018 10
Lookup Friends From Long Ago In The Internet Archive SEP 2023 27
Radio History from WØKYZ – GWEN Transmitters JAN 2020 9
Space Radio: Voyagers 1 and 2 SEP 2022 25
Special Event Station K5A NOV 2022 16
Special Event Station N5A Commemorating Apollo 11 SEP 2019 11
Ten-Tec: Made In The USA DEC 2018 13
The “Shack” OCT 2019 12
The Ham Story Behind The Movie “The Christmas Story” DEC 2018 9
The Most Famous Ham Of All OCT 2023 26
Vibroplex Bug – Ham Radio History, The APR 2020 22
Where Did “73” Come From? MAY 2018 14
WØKYZ Visits Ohio Military Museum NOV 2019 7
Women In The Signal Corps MAR 2022 21
Young Ladies’ Radio League, The DEC 2022 20
MISCELLANEOUS
ARCUA Members Achieve QSO With Int’L Space Station MAY 2025 9
ARRL Youth Licensing Grant Program, The SEP 2025 25
BVRC Agreement With Aleta For Permanent Club Station AUG 2025 5
BVRC Christmas Banquet 2024 Review JAN 2025 7
BVRC Club Station Task Force Convenes First Meeting SEP 2025 10
BVRC Club Station Update SEP 2025 15
BVRC Club Station Update – December DEC 2025 14
BVRC Club Station Update – November NOV 2025 13
BVRC Club Station Update – October OCT 2025 11
BVRC VE Team Commences Electronic Examination Sessions SEP 2025 14
Don’t Retire – Refire! MAY 2025 25
Elmer – Find One, Be One FEB 2020 12
Everyone Is An Elmer DEC 2025 20
Get Concise Weather Alerts With S.A.M.E. Weather Radios JUN 2020 7
How To Spot The International Space Station JUL 2024 20
In Memoriam: Hugh Maddox, Waøtdq MAR 2025 10
In Memoriam: John Hansen, Ab5Un MAR 2025 11
In Memoriam: Neil Poff, K5Nkp MAR 2025 12
James Bond and Ham Radio?! APR 2019 22
Need Help With a DIY Project? AUG 2022 17
W5JAY Elected ADXA President DEC 2025 21
Welcome To Alcatraz OCT 2018 13
Why Ham Radio Endures JUN 2018 19
Why Volunteer? MAR 2020 25
WWV: A Radio Icon JUN 2025 15