Every month (well, almost every month), I send out a column to amateur radio newsletter editors. (To get on the mailing list, click here.) As a result, these newsletter editors put me on their mailing lists, and I get a variety of club newsletters every month.
Perhaps the most impressive newsletter that I get is from The Communicator from Surrey Amateur Radio Communications. The April issue is the “Antenna Building Issue” and has articles on the Yagi-Uda antenna (you did know that Yagi wasn’t the only inventor, didn’t you?), vector network analyzers, NVIS antennas, my column on indoor antennas, a homebrew 6m Yagi antenna, a homebrew 2m and 70cm roll-up J-pole antenna, a homebrew 2m tape measure Yagi, a 40-6m end-fed, a fence fan dipole, and a a 2m square loop,
Overall, this issue was 80 pages long, and the impressive thing is that they do a newsletter this long every month!
Another great newsletter is The Radiogram from the Portage County [OH] Amateur Radio Service (PCARS). In addition to reprinting my April Fool’s column on the FCC reinstating the Morse Code test, the 56-page April issue includes articles on Hamvention award winners, gearing up for Field Day, an explanation of decibels (dBs), and a bunch of other great articles.
Finally, I’d like to mention VE3ERC-LUB from the Elmira [ON] Radio Club (ERC). I’ve joined the ERC for the past two years at the Point Clark Lighthouse for the International Lighthouse Weekend in August. The March 2019 issue of VE3ERC-LUB is only 12 pages, but contains this funny cartoon:
I always wondered how that worked…..
There is more to read in the SARC newsletter than QST.
Thanks for posting.
Randy, K7AGE