With outstanding help from friends the underground conduit work at the K9ZW Island QTH got finished. My friends at Backus Electric helped source the materials and lent me a very useful piece of equipment to heat PVC conduit so it can be bent at will. From the island Mike Cornell brought his tractor, skills and […]

With outstanding help from friends the underground conduit work at the K9ZW Island QTH got finished. My friends at Backus Electric helped source the materials and lent me a very useful piece of equipment to heat PVC conduit so it can be bent at will. From the island Mike Cornell brought his tractor, skills and… Continue reading Conduit to Connections

  Washington Island has a new internet based “radio” stream that is doing the community based FM project thing coming up. https://www.washingtonislandradio.com/ I’ve been too busy to follow the rule changes that have allowed this to happen or the actual Island project, but when they put out a call for some help I decided to […]

  Washington Island has a new internet based “radio” stream that is doing the community based FM project thing coming up. https://www.washingtonislandradio.com/ I’ve been too busy to follow the rule changes that have allowed this to happen or the actual Island project, but when they put out a call for some help I decided to… Continue reading Giving a helping hand to Island Radio

Years of prolonged exposure and add a nearby EF1 tornado, and it’s broken. Back in 2017 I had bought a DX Engineering HEXXbeam MkII from Greg K0PJ and brought it to Washington Island. He was upgrading his setup, about 70 minutes south. DX Engineering’s design depends on the fiberglass’s UV resistance, not calling for application […]

I took this antenna apart in 2018, and moved it to our Washington Island QTH just in time to have my tower relocation project stall with the CCP-19 Virus outbreak. Six years later it is reassembled. The weather was nice for an hour and pouring rain the next, so I was able to get the […]

Two hams sent me pictures of the auroras from the solar storm. Both photos were taken Sunday evening May 12th (2024) during the period where several successive CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections) were enhancing the opportunity for a big light show of Northern Lights. First picture was taken between 30,000 and 40,000 feet from a East […]