6M has been a sadly vacant band for much of 2025. A few flashes of brilliance did happen but what should have been great was not.
I travelled to Whitehorse, Yukon, to visit VY1CO for the ARRL CW Sweepstakes in November 2022. Read the article that appeared in the Jan.-Feb. 2023 edition of National Contest Journal.
Long weeks of poor conditions from the Pacific Northwest still left room for a few great openings to Europe and Japan. As the 2021 Es season winds down, we recap how it all went.
Early indications are that 6M will have a good summer this year. For those new or getting back to 6M activity, here’s the current state of affairs.
This is a companion piece to the post “Hearing through the noise on the low bands“. Why bother? After years of thinking about it, in early 2021 I finally got serious about building some proper matching transformers for my short Beverage wire antenna along the property line and a loop on the ground laying on…
The month of February promises something for everyone, as several major international contests and some pretty neat regional activities fill the calendar. We’ll take a look at what’s on the near horizon in this episode of Zone Zero.
The latest edition of the Zone Zero radio contesting podcast takes a look at the upcoming CQ 160M CW contest, and the antennas used for transmitting and receiving at a modest station that produces plenty of fun in the contests.
As we prepare for CQ 160M CW in a week, attention turns to transmit antennas for Top Band (1.8Mhz).
To improve the signal-to-noise ratio on 160M and 80M, many radio contesters and DXers use separate low-noise receive antennas. This alone can make the difference between “working them” and not even hearing them.
For the active contester, seeing your performance moment-by-moment ranked against the performance of other participants can be a real motivator. Welcome to online scoreboards!
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