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A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
Packing up for Winter Field Day was a piece of cake this round, so I spent the last hour burning the frayed ends of the many odd pieces of paracord I have collected over these last six years of portable ham radio. I can barely think of a better way to entertain myself while waiting …
Ok he didn’t. He just happened to be driving the little truck, full throttle, trying to dislodge it from a pile of leaves, mud, and sticks, so he could get back to attempting to crawl it up a log. Like every grown up does. And when he finally reached down to rescue the truck from …
Someone mentioned working on a remote control battery on/off switch project. Oh boy! What a darn rabbit hole that sent me down. It seemed quite simple to send a radio controlled signal to a relay, nothing novel really. And of course, I liked the idea of an analog device. Perhaps even operating on 27MHz just …
Hint: The transmission gets built tomorrow!
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …