n0xmz's boring blog

Licensed since 1993, Amateur Extra Class. Most active on 20m, 40m, 2m, 70cm, and 33cm.

  • The spending spree is over and the piper must be paid

    Well, the credit card company that is. As many hams can attest, one can spend just a couple hundred dollars on radio gear or one can spend thousands. The sky is the limit. I guess that’s true with any hobby. This past month, I added a Motorola XPR 4380 900 MHz radio along with an…

  • New antennas going up

    I recently purchased a Comet KP-20 antenna for 33cm. It’s 8 ft. tall, built solid. A 12-element (dipole) colinear with a gain of 9.2 dBi. It works and looks great so I decided I’d replace my 20-year-old J-pole with a Comet GP-6 dual-band antenna for 2m and 70cm. This one is 10 ft. tall with…

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