AND... We also chatted about the intersection of new users, space-constrained antennas, low-cost handhelds, and hands-on projects!
The common Baofeng UV-5R has some limitations with the stock antenna. A gain antenna, like the J pole, can do all the good! Friends in apartments, townhouses, and aggressive HOA-spaces can still make good use of the J pole planted in a flower pot or five gallon bucket! Every new Ham, and any interested parties, can learn a lot from building antennas. The Golden Path of antenna building might look a lot like dipole, 1/4 wave ground plane, J pole, Slim Jim. Cool, huh! I think we could manage a guided tutorial on antenna building! So, friends such as N5BAA, with something like a HT, and a J pole in a bucket can really reach out! (lazy Clue metaphor) Thoughts? 73 Dan KJ5IZK On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM Daniel Poirot <[email protected]> wrote: > We had a great chat today on 146.94 at 12:00 We even had a drop-in from > the east coast (I think). > > Our out of town guest offered up an interesting Raspberry Pi-based Ham > Radio project - sBitx <https://www.sbitx.net/> > > *The sBitx is a 25 watt, high performance SDR > <https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/sbitx-v3/> that you can easily build, > it has all popular digital modes like FT8 integrated. * > > This reminded me of my interest in the Raspberry Pi-based WSPR > project:RaspberryPi > WSPR Node : 7 Steps <https://www.instructables.com/RaspberryPi-WSPR-Node/> > So cool! Everyone should do one! > > 73 > Dan KJ5IZK > >
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