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Another Girls Getaway – The ARRL SSB Sweepstakes!

December 11, 2023 by KM1NDY

Well it wasn’t the CQWW SSB, but it was another girls getaway nonetheless. Though this time, it was without my beloved sweet pup Nellie, who passed away last spring. Georgia, who does her very best to constantly remind me she’s not Nellie, and I gathered up our gear and headed off to the Salisbury Beach …

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Clean-Up Duty At The Folks’ Homestead…TIMBER!!!

December 11, 2023 by KM1NDY

About the only thing I like more than chainsawing is chipping wood. So it is always a pleasure when my parents find me even a little something to cut down.

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Are We Overthinking Our Antennas? The Killington-Pico Traverse And The Near-Tragic Tale Of The Forgotten End-Fed

September 8, 2023 by KM1NDY

By now it should be pretty obvious that Summits-On-The-Air, and attaining its elusive Mountain Goat award, is hard for New England activators. Summertime hikes up any given mountain with four successful summit QSOs, are only worth a maximum of 10 points a piece. And these 10 points are only reserved for the northeast’s most challenging …

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Working With The Little Rigs: Venus SW-3B And (tr)uSDX

July 24, 2023 by KM1NDY

Gosh these are adorably cute little ham radios. And they got me 16 SOTA points this weekend on Mounts Greylock and Osceola!

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Farm Life: ARRL Field Day 2023

June 27, 2023 by KM1NDY

Just a quick look at AA1F and my 2B ENY Field Day from our farm in Upstate NY. The generator is running under the blue tarp. We got lucky, but rain had been predicted for much of the weekend. Most of it missed us fortunately! We did decide not to put up the military mast …

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Happy Amateur Radio Day From King X-Ray One Queen Two Bravo Echo November Yankee!

June 24, 2023 by KM1NDY

If you understand that title, then you are one of us!! Hope to catch you on the air, especially the alpha stations back in EMA. I’ll miss you all! Hope to catch you on the air! KM1NDY

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The SOTA Halfway Point

June 17, 2023 by KM1NDY

I just crossed over the 500 mark for Summits-On-The-Air. When I first started this program 3 1/2 years ago, and over a hundred mountains later, I would joke that it was going to take me a decade to get my Mountain Goat award. You need a thousand points. Haha?! But don’t worry, I don’t give …

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Quicky But Goody: Stony Brook Conservation Land Amateur Radio Direction Finding Fox Hunt

May 21, 2023 by KM1NDY

The NEMass Fox Hunters were at it again with a hidden transmitter. This time at the Stony Brook Conservation Land in Westford MA. What an interesting piece of land. That I have never heard of. As usual, we arrived to the park fairly late in the afternoon. I was using my newest fox hunting set-up, …

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Introducing Georgia The One-Eyed Pirate Puppy, And The Worst SOTA Ever (North Uncanoonuc)

May 7, 2023 by KM1NDY

After a pretty tough spring, the radio adventures are ready to gear up, and we have a new family member! Meet Georgia! Poor Georgia, a rescue from Buddy Dog Humane Society in Sudbury MA is some sort of shepherd-ish mutt. When she was a baby, her eye was bit out by another dog. Now, at …

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The Right Tool For The Job: Toggle Step Attenuator For Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) / Ham Radio Fox Hunting

March 19, 2023 by KM1NDY

A tad bit of spring danced through the air on this mid-March day. It was easy to justify a run up north to find the NEMass Fox Hunters hidden transmitter. From the small dirt parking lot we could hear a few measures of “Mary Had A Little Lamb” bleating out on 146.535MHz through our handheld …

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