Jeff Avery in Ham Radio
On 24th December 1993 I passed the Basic exam and received my ham radio call VA3JEF. At that time, the qualification allowed me on VHF. On 18th January 1994 I passed the morse code test at 5 wpm and, immediately after, at 12 wpm. While my copying at 5 wpm was solid, my copy at 12 wpm was not and I had to make several corrections and fill-ins after the code was sent. Nether-the-less, it was a pass! At that time, the 5 wpm morse code qualification allowed me on 80 metres and the 12 wpm qualification allowed me on the rest of the HF bands. Finally, I did a self-study course on the Advanced Level and passed that although I have no record of when that was.
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Ham Radio
Building my indoor trap dipole
Measuring trap resonance with an MFJ-259 HF/VHF SWR Analyzer
Building an “Ugly Balun”
Dip Meters (Heathkit GD-1B & HM-10A)
Asymmetric filters
Broken headphone jack
No audio combined with full-scale S-meter
