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A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
I’ve developed a bit of a kite fetish. Some time back in July I learned that people flew antennas on kites. One of those people was Guglielmo Marconi whose kite antenna enabled the first transatlantic wireless communication. As someone who tends to always gaze toward the future, my interest however was decidedly not inspired by …
…than sneaking off to play radio with AA1F, KB1REQ, and Nellie. (Salisbury Beach State Reservation, Salisbury MA, ARRL November SSB Sweepstakes 2021)
I judge all of my activities using roller skating as a barometer. As a long long long time roller skater, one of the things I like best about the skate community is its consistency. Skaters gotta skate as they say. The rinks have set hours for “adult nights” where we all show up and roll …
You know the feeling you get when you know you are going to disappoint someone? The funny sound in your voice when you try to figure out how to explain the “thing”? Well, let’s just say that is exactly how AA1F sounded when he told me he didn’t want to go stay in my cargo …
As usual AA1F and I would head down to the southeastern corner of Massachusetts to play a road rally (for all you motorheads!) style game of hide-and-seek with radios. This amateur radio direction finding event, colloquially called “foxhunting”, will have us driving in circles inside a 10-mile radius for 5 hours. Our primary goal is …
There would be no way for you to know that my lifelong dream is to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. So when Mike WB2FUV put out the call to celebrate Benton MacKaye’s 1921 inspirational publication “An Appalachian Trail: A project in regional planning” by lighting up the AT, Marc AA1F, Nellie the Dog, and I were …
Thanks Hunters!
Sometimes you just want to take the easy way up, ya know? So after our pretty intense backpacking Summits-On-The-Air trek the week before, this week we wanted to lazily drive up a couple peaks for our points. And of course, once we get a little taste of sleeping outdoors…well, we want to keep it up. …
We are pretty well equipped for backpacking. A mid-September hike in the White Mountains complete with dual Summits-On-The-Air activations of Mt. Whiteface and Mt Passaconaway seemed like a perfect way for AA1F and I to spend a weekend. This picture of the trailhead map cuts off a little bit of the route. Essentially, our initial …
AA1F and I are not overthinkers. The idea hit us on Wednesday night that we would like to camp out on Saturday night for the Fox Mike Hotel Portable Ops Challenge. Getting a campsite on Labor Day Weekend only a few days in advance is not an easy feat. Essentially, we just went ahead at …