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Skip KB1CNB and the Bristol County Repeater Association did it again with the fifth amateur radio direction finding event! AA1F and I will not miss these (click here, here, here, and here for blogs). The premise is largely the same as always, involving a 10 mile radius centered around a bridge in Fall River MA. …
Thank you Pi K1RV for letting me come by the K1USN club house and play radio. I had a fantastic time as always! Especially after I learned all about the audio gain knob 😉 Always great hanging out with the crew!(And thanks Joe WB1EMS for the video which I embedded in this post. I seem …
There’s no point to climbing a mountain. The view is great! Good exercise! Nice to get fresh air! Like Sisyphus I’ve trudged up 66 peaks since the end of 2019 using Summits-On-The-Air as my excuse. I barely notice the view, I routinely subsist off of pizza and poptarts, and the air blowing in off of …
For one, its almost midnight. Look at all of those signals on the data portion of the 20M band!!! I may actually be a believer in Solar Cycle 25. I am not shocked. A few nights ago, this is what my ZachTek WSPR unit looked like on 20M. So I put about an hour and …
Life is such a meandering journey. Back in January 2021, when AA1F was still WX1MAR, and this blog was in its infancy, we rented the Caboose at the Chester Railway Station & Museum for Winter Field Day. It was an extremely cold stay with single digit temperatures. The post is here and the throwback photo …
This will not be an easy post to write. There are far too many RF and electrical concepts cemented together with way too little foundation of knowledge on my part. It is a continuation in some ways to this post. And a bit to this post. And it fueled by some challenges posed by my …
Lets start with the fact that there is no S2 port on the NanoVNA. There is a “1” port. And there is a “0” port. Or lets talk about that S12 measurements tell you how well a transmission goes from port 2 to port 1. NOT how well the power of the transmission goes from …
Potentiometers for crying out loud…what the heck did you think I was talking about?!? And don’t get any ideas that you caught me here. I am a well-established straight-edged teetotaler. I came back from NEAR-Fest at the Deerfield Fairgrounds in New Hampshire two weekends ago with a box of variable resistors that only cost me …
There was snow. I only wore my crocs, my hiking shoe of choice but not for a foot of slushy, melting spring snow. It was 50 degrees. The peak of Slide was 2.8 miles away. Rock hopping up the base of the mountain made the early part of the trail easy. The trail was soupy, …