Amateur radio in Northern Norway
EFHW match box, end fed half wave transformer, 49:1 unun and impedance transformer – the animal goes by many names. Try to Google one of them, and you will find many examples of home brew variations of them. They all seem very like (because they are) and nearly all of them share a common feature: Revolved windings. Why do people over complicate this simple device?
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One year has passed since GDPR was implemented in the European Economic Area. Much has been said about whether the regulations successfully protects our privacy or not. But it is quite clear that we cannot browse the web as freely as before. Some information is unavailable to us after GDPR.
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I have wanted to learn morse code for some time, and now I have eventually commit myself to it. Things are going surprisingly fast, and that gives me courage to continue practicing.
Read moreMorse code is no longer a requirement to acquire an amateur license here in Norway. The same is true for many (or most?) other countries. Still morse code, or CW – continous wave as it is often referred to as, has great value. Here are my top five reasons why I am learning morse code.
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The Royal Observatory of Belgium released new predictions of the solar cycle progression on february the 1st. According to the graph a considerable increase in number of sunspots could be expected any time soon. Hooray!
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