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A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
You may recall in this post, that AA1F and I were shut out of getting our SOTA point on Oak Hill W1/MV-006 near Concord NH due to a thunderstorm. This meant that I could not attempt to put that rusty twisted tangle of metal residing on the peak of the small hill on the air. …
Oscilloscope. Signal generator. DC power supply. DMM. LCR meter. A trunkload of components. A still non-functioning diy fuzz face guitar pedal…
Look carefully at that radio in the picture above? Recognize it? I’ll come back to it at the end of this post. The odd places radio takes you. Below is Pocumtuck Rock in Deerfield MA. It is the same place the picture above was taken. The WGAF-FM tower sits above the Eaglebrook Boarding School. It …
AA1F was celebrating a special day, so he needed a special present. While our love of radio is simultaneously growing, our ambitions in the hobby are different. AA1F embraces the “appliance operator” label, wanting easy to deploy gear that consistently works so he can reliably and rapidly get on the air and make contacts. Me, …
We would wake up early so I could scour the Seacoast Amateur Radio Flea Market in Hampton MA for some crystals and variable capacitors and then head over to the little bump called “Oak Hill” (W1/MV-006) for a Summits-On-The-Air activation. My ulterior motive, inspired by this thread on QRZ.com, was to use this as an …
Are you a no-code, appliance operator type of ham who memorized the general class amateur radio test questions in order to be able to talk on the high frequency bands? Well, me too. Or at least I was. And then I got sucked into this weird 3+ year long vortex of RF lovefest. And, oh …
The weekend is winding down. I’ll be heading out to the roller rink shortly. AA1F is back from his trip to New York. I am experiencing that letdown you feel after a terrifically good time has come to an end, and real life is about to kick in again. I decided last week that I …
Unfortunately, I took a blurry photo. My workbench has been expanding. The radio is citizen’s band, an Uniden Bearcat 880 that I thought was broken. Then my new dummy load, and MFJ-264N. It’s a bit hard to tell, but there are 3 power supplies tucked in around the monitor. A soldering station in the background. …
Most hams have heard of Parks-On-The-Air. They know that they need to make a certain number of contacts (10) in a zulu day in order to successfully activate a park. Not quite as many realize that there is another contest within the POTA umbrella, the Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio (RaDAR) challenge. Born out of an …