{"id":34696,"date":"2024-05-30T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=34696"},"modified":"2024-05-30T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:32:08","slug":"radcom-basics-march-2024-edition-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/publications\/radcom-basics-html5\/2024\/05\/30\/radcom-basics-march-2024-edition-39\/","title":{"rendered":"RadCom Basics, March 2024, Edition 39"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgbmembers.services\/login?id=6056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-34277 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/03\/cover_radcom_basics_march_2024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/03\/cover_radcom_basics_march_2024.png 500w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/03\/cover_radcom_basics_march_2024-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2024\/03\/cover_radcom_basics_march_2024-106x150.png 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Operating portable, a personal experience<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Mark Hartley, M0XCZ reflects upon his experiences of portable operating and provides an account aimed at encouraging amateurs to get out there and experience the benefits of portable operating<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>In this edition&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>4 Checking and testing components: Part one<\/strong><br \/>\nLee Aldridge, G4EJB, provides guidance about how to check and test components. This is useful if you are thinking about constructional work, repair work, or rebuilding old equipment. Lee provides some basic pointers and tells us how to avoid potential pitfalls<\/li>\n<li><strong>14 Working the 160 and 80m bands from small gardens and limited space: Part two<\/strong><br \/>\nAndy Gilfillan, G0FVI explains the challenges of operating these two low HF bands from restrictive small gardens and spaces<\/li>\n<li><strong>22 Verticals and radials, how important are they?<\/strong><br \/>\nIn this article, Tim Hier, G5TM examines the extent to which radials play a part in enhancing the performance of a HF vertical antenna<\/li>\n<li><strong>28 Operating portable, a personal experience<\/strong><br \/>\nMark Hartley, M0XCZ reflects upon his own experiences of portable operating. Mark provides an account aimed at encouraging amateurs to get out there and experience the\u2014sometimes unexpected\u2014benefits of portable operating.<\/li>\n<li><strong>34 Keeping it clean! A guide to clean transmissions: Part one<\/strong><br \/>\nAndy Gilfillan, G0FVI provides some great tips and advice on how to transmit a clean signal by examining why a transmission might sound \u2018unclean\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>41 Index of <em>RadCom Basics<\/em> articles, editions 1 to 39<\/strong><br \/>\nProvides you with an up-to-date reference to all <em>RadCom Basics<\/em> articles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Download<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rsgbmembers.services\/login?id=6057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Radcom Basics March 2024, Edition 39<\/strong><\/a> (PDF)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operating portable, a personal experience Mark Hartley, M0XCZ reflects upon his experiences of portable operating and provides an account aimed at encouraging amateurs to get out there and experience the benefits of portable operating In this edition&#8230; 4 Checking and testing components: Part one Lee Aldridge, G4EJB, provides guidance about how to check and test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radcom-basics-html5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}