I’m Tanking…
(psssst….you are obviously not a *real* ham if you did not get it, lol… 😉 )
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The *Can’t* *Miss* *Radio* *Event* — Bristol County Repeater Association Fox Hunt #5
Skip KB1CNB and the Bristol County Repeater Association did it again with the fifth amateur radio direction finding event! AA1F and I will not miss these (click here, here, here, and here for blogs). The premise is largely the same as always, involving a 10 mile radius centered around a bridge in Fall River MA. …
Museum Ships Weekend at K1USN
Thank you Pi K1RV for letting me come by the K1USN club house and play radio. I had a fantastic time as always! Especially after I learned all about the audio gain knob 😉 Always great hanging out with the crew!(And thanks Joe WB1EMS for the video which I embedded in this post. I seem …
Activating SOTA On Mount Osceola And Discussing Freedom
There’s no point to climbing a mountain. The view is great! Good exercise! Nice to get fresh air! Like Sisyphus I’ve trudged up 66 peaks since the end of 2019 using Summits-On-The-Air as my excuse. I barely notice the view, I routinely subsist off of pizza and poptarts, and the air blowing in off of …
What Do You Call The Worst CW Operator In A Radio Contest? Tell Me The Answer In Code & I’ll Never Know…CQ WPX CW 2022
For one, its almost midnight. Look at all of those signals on the data portion of the 20M band!!! I may actually be a believer in Solar Cycle 25. I am not shocked. A few nights ago, this is what my ZachTek WSPR unit looked like on 20M. So I put about an hour and …
The Return To The Caboose! Chester On Track Festival 2022 & The W1R Special Event Station
Life is such a meandering journey. Back in January 2021, when AA1F was still WX1MAR, and this blog was in its infancy, we rented the Caboose at the Chester Railway Station & Museum for Winter Field Day. It was an extremely cold stay with single digit temperatures. The post is here and the throwback photo …
Learning LC Circuits The Hard Way: Rolled Up Aluminum Foil And Wax Paper Scraps
This will not be an easy post to write. There are far too many RF and electrical concepts cemented together with way too little foundation of knowledge on my part. It is a continuation in some ways to this post. And a bit to this post. And it fueled by some challenges posed by my …
Late Night NanoVNAing: Band Pass Filter Analysis For Friends That Don’t Like To Share
Lets start with the fact that there is no S2 port on the NanoVNA. There is a “1” port. And there is a “0” port. Or lets talk about that S12 measurements tell you how well a transmission goes from port 2 to port 1. NOT how well the power of the transmission goes from …