A hundred years ago most Hams had transitioned from Spark transmitters to the new Vacuum Tubes which, through Feedback, were able to generate just a single frequency output thus allowing more than one guy at a time to transmit without having to decipher the slightly different tonal quality of a spark to determine who it…

According to some, QST magazine used to use the abbreviation MC for Morse Code until one day the kid they had in the print room dropped one of the page blocks, spilling most of the type on the floor. He got it all back together, but wasn’t a Ham at the time and put those…

Mark KJ5JVV brought his five hundred dollar Fluke model 177 meter and verified our previous readings on a 100 Ah LifePo made with our seven dollar Harbor Freight digital meters, having found our place between the arches in the center of town and the Bixby Police antenna (see pic above) and then went across the…

Jim K5LE won the prize for most miles traveled from his QTH 8 miles North of Pryor OK, choosing a 12V 2A wall plug over a 1A USB charger. Brad WA5PSA chose the USB charger for bringing the most meters. Scott’s hamburgers welcomed us into the back ‘Party’ room set up with rows of deluxe…

Yes, that’s right, there are two (2) kinds of Meters, analog and digital. Shown above is the Radio Shack lookalike to the Simpson 260 VOM which I bought in 1968 because it was cheaper than a Simpson, and said it was more sensitive, 100k Ohms per Volt rather than 20k. Voltmeters such as this analog…

We meet twice a month, 2nd and 4th Thursdays at Scott’s Hamburgers in downtown Bixby, a couple blocks from 151 and Memorial. Go a few blocks East and some South until you see the ARCH pictured above, and then half a block West (toward the setting sun). Order at the counter if you like and…