K3 AGC – The Clifton Laboratories Paper

Clifton Laboratories was acquired by DX Engineering. The Clifton Laboratories website is now redirecting to DX Engineering, and the Clifton Lab references and papers are unavailable. However, It *is* possible to get at the old Clifton Laboratories Documents via the Internet Archive’s wayback machine. The original K3 AGC paper from 2009 is available on the …

Grounding is Important – Really

Mike, K7IR, President of SteppIR Antennas, showed me a printed circuit board from an antenna controller that a customer had sent returned.  They didn’t get a direct lightning hit, but after a small storm nearby, their antenna wasn’t working any longer. Check out the destruction of the driver chips. It’s prudent to make sure you …