What A Tease! Flirting With A New Hobby…
Hint: The transmission gets built tomorrow!
KM1NDY
A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
Category: Adventure
Third Annual W1 SOTA 2024 Winter Bonus Event On Mount Sunapee: A Study In Peer Pressure And A Bothy Bag Gear Test
If my friends jumped off a bridge would I? Well, this is such a nuanced question. First, how high is the bridge? Next, what is under the bridge? Third, who was going to go first? And when someone declares a Summits-On-The-Air “Winter Bonus and Summit-to-Summit Weekend Event” as Bob AC1Z has now done for three …
Hey Good Lookin’! 20 Meter Propagation To Europe For CQWW SSB Ham Radio Contest
Hoping my radio waves make the most of the salt water tomorrow on their way off to foreign lands. I’ve heard the sun may be coughing up a fireball (a.k.a. a coronal mass ejection). This picture shows the stations receiving my 200mW 20M WSPR signal from my home QTH from 1:00 to 4:00 UTC (9pm …
Hobo Ham Radio: Trashing Up The Airwaves
I lost my Nellie eighteen months ago. We had our secret spot along a tidal river. Perhaps you remember some of the old stories I told? Nellie learned a lot about life on these banks. And so did I. My new canine pal came into our life very shortly after the passing of Nellie. A …
Dear Diary: ARRL Field Day 2024 (Equipment Checklist Download Included!)
Scroll to the bottom if you are only interested in the FD checklist! Is Field Day worth it? This year, more than any other, it seems this question was popping up on ham radio forums across the internet. Other versions seem to be what is the relevance of FD in the day and age of …
Hi Ho Hi Ho, It’s Off To Work We Go! A Raucous Post-Hole Diggin’ Memorial Day Weekend Extravaganza…
And boy-oh-boy did we make a lot of noise! Running three generators, a cement mixer, and a tractor equipped with a scary-looking auger, we managed to dig…a hole! Congrats AA1F, on not only digging three feet into the ground, but on fixing your auger after it snapped a shear bolt when it wedged itself under …
Singing Me And Georgie Down By The Seashore
Stole the OM’s radio, grabbed the puppy, and went to make a qso or two for the CQWW SSB contest down on the seawall at Castle Island. That is the Elecraft KX2 with the AX1 antenna. I only managed a single contact…but it was to Slovenia. I think it counts. KM1NDY
Five Years Of Electromagnetic Bliss! Happy Ham Birthday To Me!!
Sending out a flurry of sinusoidal waves to those important people who share this lovely day with me! Love you guys!
Thirteen Points: Tecumseh
Solidly in the back nine now…