The KC0TKS 10 meter beacon has been pounding out 13 WPM cw for the past 4 years from Sedalia, Missouri and has been heard in better than half of the US states and several different countries.

The time has come for a change. The beacon will soon switch to QRSS30 mode and be relocated to a location high atop a mountain in California.

Details on frequency, mode and listening suggestions can be found here.

After a year-long hiatus, the KC0TKS.org website is back!

 A hosting change last year rendered the site unusable. Another change recently restored the site to it's former self, although from an older backup.

 With your help submitting content, we can return to our former level of 30-40 thousand visits per month.

Please don't hesitate sending me your thoughts and suggestions to

Chris - KC0TKS

I have posted the KC0TKS/B beacon log to the beacon page . It is amazing how far you can communicate with 5 watts on a 'dead band'.

10's not dead, it's just resting! 

 I have posted plans for a new project under 'Antennas' in the Projects area. It is a 10 meter J-Pole.

I built this a month or so ago for my 10 meter beacon and have been testing it and it works very well. I thought I would have to wait until the spring storms to wind test it but living in Missouri, you just may get thunderstorms in January and that is exactly what happened. 51 mph winds one day and 50 the next so my testing is complete and the plans have been published. 

If you have any questions about the 10 Meter J-Pole Project, feel free to email me. 

I started this website last year as a means to provide to the amateur community, some of the information and knowledge I have gathered about amateur radio.

When I started the site, I had plenty of time on my hands to keep it up and filled with new information. As time has gone by, I find myself with less and less time to devote to the site. While looking over the website stats, I find that the hits to the site have quadrupled in the last few months.

So, here goes, I'm going to start begging. Not for money like some sites do, rather for some help keeping the site filled with interesting, relevent information to amateurs.

If anyone visiting this site has anything to offer the amateur community, whether it be a project to build, the audio from your local net, a new poll, an interesting link or just a tidbit of ham radio news, please drop me an email at .

Suggestions for something you would like to see added to the site are also encouraged. 

The first sunspot of solar cycle 24 has appeared marking the beginning of the next 11 year solar cycle.

Solar physicists have been waiting for the appearance of a reversed-polarity sunspot to signal the start of the next solar cycle. The wait is over. A magnetically reversed, high-latitude sunspot emerged today

A rapid upswing of solar activity is expected over the next few years and many experts believe this will be one of the strongest cycles in the 400 or so years that records have been kept.

Solar activity affects the propagation of radio signals and many bands that have been dormant for years will bustle with activity once again. 

You can get detailed solar activity information by clicking on 'solar x-rays' at the top right of this page.