I recently purchased a 10-meter Spiderbeam fiberglass pole for use on POTA activations. Last week, I set it up for the first time.

The first problem I faced was finding a place to set it up. I had some idea of how to do this because a couple of years ago I went out with Thom, W8TAM, who has one of these poles. What we did then was to lash it to a post.

A frequent topic of discussion in amateur radio circles is speculation about new products from major manufacturers. There was, for example, a lot of discussion before Dayton about a new product introduction by Kenwood. Many were hoping that they were going to introduce a new HF radio and were disappointed when the new product was just a new HT to replace the TH-D74

Back when I had an IC-7300, one of the things I lamented is that the display wasn’t bigger. I had heard about wfview, which is open-source software designed to control modern Icom radios, but I never did get around to installing it.