Silent English

      In 1968 an American linguist, answering the question "How do you pronounce TESOL?" (the acronym of the Association of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) answered: "T as in castle, E as in give, S as in island, O as in people, and L as in calm."

      In fact you can, with some use of proper names and loan words, create a complete silent alphabet for English, as follows:

 

 Info:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_letter

Happy birthday Samuel Morse

On 27 April 1791, Samuel Morse was born.
More Info:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse

Squalo antenna for 6m

The “Squalo” antenna, or square halo. In fact, it’s just a square folded dipole. It radiates in all directions, with -4dB gain on the sides (compared to the front and back side).

More info: http://www.pa3hcm.nl/?p=312

The Amateur Radio documentary

Making Crimp coax connectors for RG-213

More INFO: http://www.bcdxc.org/Crimp%20Connectors%20VE7BZ_1.pdf & http://www.bcdxc.org/pl259_crimp_on_connectors.htm