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Los Angeles Times: Our friendly neighborhood fence lizard: Why Californians love this reptile
If you live in California, you’ve probably seen, or held, a western fence lizard. According to a leading dataset of animal and plant observations, the species is the most commonly spotted reptile in ...
They were not trying to land all the radio gear, antenae, fuel and generators required to mount a DXpedition on the scale that has been promised. I'm sure they could land with a typical SOTA station - an IC-705 or similar, a couple of LiPo batteries and a coil of wire, but that would not satisfy their grand scheme, would it? Martin G8MAB, Feb ...
Do not put baluns in single element dipoles that would be used for anything other than the frequency they're cut for or the appropriate odd harmonic. Multiple-element "fan" dipoles are great with a good balun. Always use current baluns. The ONLY exception to this are the Radio Works "Remote Balun" and another 4:1 balun called the "Centaur".
There are awards not just for activating and hunting unique parks, but they have their own WAS, there are awards for activating/hunting parks and operators multiple times, park-to-park awards, "late shift" awards for 0000Z to 1200Z contacts (good for the after-work crowd), and more. Activators help the hunters, and hunters help the activators.