KM1NDY
A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
That is Mount Norwottuck that that lady is looking at in the distance. We are on top of Bare Mountain (W1/CR-014), a tiny but steep half mile climb. AA1F and I have been trying for so many ten point mountains that we forget how much we like climbing our local hills. Bare Mountain is one …
It starts off innocently with Field Day. C’mon, just do a little GOTA, you will be fine… Here, I’ll walk you through it. Just say the call sign when I tell you to. C’mon. Just do it. Don’t be shy. Get-On-The-Air. You know, GOTA. We are all doing it. Everyone’s doing it. That’s right, just …
AA1F took one look at the TV tray full of wires, computers, circuit boards, the giant face of Paul McWhorter talking out Arduino lesson 29, and my body tangled in a blanket awkwardly positioned amongst rearranged couch cushions, shook his head, and quietly went up to bed. It wasn’t the first time… Ok, for all …
I have ever so slowly been moving away from exclusively phone to other non-verbal modes on Summits-On-The-Air activations. My last peak, a short little walk up Joe English Hill, I brought the digimodes-only Venus DR-4020 transceiver with a 3 ah LiFePO Bioenno battery, and the once extraordinarily cheap (as in $60!) Evolve III Maestro PC …
I won’t win any awards. But this is definitely a personal record!
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 …