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A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
I told you exactly how to do this for the Yaesu FT-818nd here. In essence you need to acquire a custom made printed circuit board from a man in Poland and you need to order a filter on Ebay from Japan. Then you solder the two parts together in 3 places. That is it! The …
I have a secret spot. A place I like to go. A picnic table on the bank of a brackish tidal river. With shrubby cedar that has sprouted a yard or more since I claimed it nearly four years ago. Nellie, my dog, knows it by heart, leading me through the wooded shortcuts and begging …
October’s Hunter Moon was taking its toll. Columbus Day weekend, like any good three-day break from work, put a lot of people on the road. As in we were re-routed to locals by the google maps app in order to avoid significant delays in the Concord NH merging of Interstates 93 and 89 Saturday morning …
This one is not hot off the presses… Nearly six weeks ago, AA1F and I hiked up Pico Peak for yet another Summits-On-The-Air 10 point activation. It all began here. In a parking lot across the street from the Inn at Long Trail. Except the Long Trail had actually been rerouted and now this trail …
[Mount Toby W1/CR-002 in Sunderland MA on October 2, 2022] KC5BGK, EA2LU, W4JL, W4KAC, and W5GDW all had the patience of saints to deal with my horrible 7wpm CW. Thank you all for the BEST. ACTIVATION. EVAH! I was using the Icom IC-705 to a DIY 20M dipole running on the internal battery for a …
First off, go to Thomas Witherspoon K4SWL’s blog on this. I stole the idea directly from him. Well from a reader (Petr OK1RP) of the blog that commented that this was possible, and then Thomas documented it. I have been dipping my toe into CW for a while now. I am a member of the …
Skip KB1CNB sent around the notice that the Bristol County Repeater Association (BCRA) was doing another fox hunt and the games began! These amateur radio direction finding exercises, where Skip and now Kevin N1KJS radiate boops and beeps from a transmitter in their vehicles somewhere on the Massachusetts and Rhode Island border, and the rest …
It was one of my buddies who really put a bug in my ear about the use of RF digimodes in a city landscape. He’s been itching to build the QRP Labs QDX Digital Transceiver. I did not instantly see the excitement. FT8 is a fun mode at times. I have enjoyed JS8 call. WSPR …
Look, I’m exhausted. Maybe even a little cranky. This past week AA1F and I chipped away at the thousand points we need to earn our Summits-On-The-Air Mountain Goat awards. We didn’t actually walk all that far…but I am not sure you can deny us our effort regardless. The Google Maps app predicts nearly 29 hours …
These settings for getting the Yaesu FT-891A to play nice with WSJT-X worked well for me! Well, really for AA1F who is deciding he wants to be able to operate FT8 during campground quiet hours too… (Thanks to https://w0abe.com/projects/ft8-ft891/ who I hope does not mind me reposting these here!)