KM1NDY
A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
I have done Winter Field Day every year since I became a ham. With a radio club in a rain storm (2020), in a museum train caboose in 0℉ weather (2021), in a severe blizzard in a tent in our backyard (2022), with another radio club in rustic cluster of cabins (2023), at the outbuilding …
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 …
I have an old HP ProBook that is not qualified for an upgrade to Windows 11. Some readers may remember I have been dabbling in Linux over the years. And by dabbling, I mostly mean clenching my jaw, hands, and toes, waiting for something to install, and fretting over how badly I broke my computer …
This post is simply to document that the only way I found to connect my SDRplay RSP2 software defined radio receiver with GNU Radio software was by following the instructions exactly on this link: https://github.com/fventuri/gr-sdrplay3/blob/main/WINDOWS.md . I have copied the page and made notes on it below to simplify the process for Windows 10 users. …
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 …
Much like many items on this secret little site, there is no particular purpose to writing this laboratory report. Often these posts are simply mental exercises, helping me work through concepts, ideas, and projects. This website exists exclusively for my own pleasure. The ability to construct words on a page, arrange photographs at will, and …
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 …