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A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
It was only a few short years ago that I texted a friend of mine in a panic because I had chipped the corner of a ceramic capacitor (probably a 103 or something like that). I had spread its little wire legs too far apart while trying to put a through hole CW transceiver kit …
One of the best parts for me about maintaining this blog is being able to see my own progression within the amateur radio (and electronics) hobby. About a year and a half ago, I published my first attempt to breadboard a receiver (here). It is rather painful to look at. And it did not work. …
By now it should be pretty obvious that Summits-On-The-Air, and attaining its elusive Mountain Goat award, is hard for New England activators. Summertime hikes up any given mountain with four successful summit QSOs, are only worth a maximum of 10 points a piece. And these 10 points are only reserved for the northeast’s most challenging …
Jeff AC1JR has written up quite a fine debunking of the Scribbler. Find it here: https://blahg.josefsipek.net/?p=609.
I was giving a talk at a hamfest this past weekend, and someone came up to me after and handed me a card. Not a business card, rather a ripped out sheet of paper from a small notepad with the drawing of an antenna. Unfortunately, I do not know the gentleman’s callsign. He swore it …
Gosh these are adorably cute little ham radios. And they got me 16 SOTA points this weekend on Mounts Greylock and Osceola!
Just a quick look at AA1F and my 2B ENY Field Day from our farm in Upstate NY. The generator is running under the blue tarp. We got lucky, but rain had been predicted for much of the weekend. Most of it missed us fortunately! We did decide not to put up the military mast …
If you understand that title, then you are one of us!! Hope to catch you on the air, especially the alpha stations back in EMA. I’ll miss you all! Hope to catch you on the air! KM1NDY
I am literally afraid to turn anything off. I am sitting here with two computers connected together with an ethernet cable. A Yaesu FT-991A on the left of me, and not one, but two Yaesu FT-891As on the right of me. One of the 891s is mine. The other is AA1F’s. Which I recently ran …
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 …