KM1NDY
A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
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 …
If there is anything I have learned about Chester, it’s that it has weather. Our first time at the caboose was Winter Field Day of 2021. There were record low temperatures that night and we were not sure we would be able to survive the cold quite literally. Our next time at the Caboose was …
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, …
I have decided to get serious about CW. With a newly ordered Venus SW-3B QRP CW transceiver shipping out tonight, I want to solidify my morse code skills. So, between receiving a great tip about Morse Runner (thanks Joe!) and having a bit of free time now on at least some Sunday evenings for the …
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 …
These things start out so innocently, don’t they? You see a little Cee Bee radio at a truck stop one day. What harm can something like that do? A little four watt AM radio with a mag mount antenna on the roof, and power coming from the cigarette lighter. You listen to truckers talking about …
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 …
Truth be told, I was starting to get a little envious of those who had a good 2M mobile radio solution in their vehicles. Despite the nearly 125,000 miles on my cargo van (affectionately called “Limey”), I was not interested in either putting holes in the roof or elsewhere for a permanent antenna mount, and …
“Late Shift” Parks-On-The-Air activation of K-6876, Castle Island, Boston Harbor. Yaesu FT-891 (100W), LDG-Z100 Plus autotuner, 40M EFHW antenna at 15 feet maximum height between two trees, 15AH Bioenno LiFePO4 battery. 112 Contacts. 1 Hour and 8 minutes. All on 40 meters. Walked home. What a great night. KM1NDY
Look. It’s hard putting yourself out there on the internet. This may be a touchy subject. We all want to put our best self forward. It is not easy with all of that random background noise out there. It is so easy to say, what’s the harm if I just put a filter on? No …