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A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
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!)
I am convinced that one of the major reasons that the higher frequency HF bands are relatively unused is because 17M and 12M bands are not resonant harmonics of the common 20M or 40M half-wavelength antennas that portable radio operators so routinely use in the field. I know some folks will decry “its the [prior] …
It all started with a casual email from Joe N1QD just saying him and his wife Kelley were going to Georges Island to activate the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park (K-2421). And did anyone want to come along? And, we did. A dozen of us packed up our radio gear and other goodies …
It was a lovely 82 degrees on top of Mount Agamenticus (W1/AM-381 and K-8448). AA1F, Nellie, and I had taken a Saturday drive up to Maine to see if we could secure a few new bicycles. That did not go the way we hoped. But we did decide to get on the air on the …
I still wonder why he just didn’t ask for a divorce. I am standing in the parking lot of the Waterville Valley Ski Resort, peering down the access road in to the facility, and looking at the aptly named Mount Tripyramid. If you look a little closer at this sawtoothed mountain, you can make out …
Last year successful activations of Black Head and Black Dome Mountains (June 2021) put me over the 100 point mark for Summits-On-The-Air (SOTA). Just of a year later the two 10-point twins put me over the 300 mark. As many of you know, I need a thousand points to be eligible for the SOTA Mountain …
Summits On The Air. My ham radio sweet spot. I live at the edge of the ocean, but my heart is in the hills. I have made the trek up a mountain 71 times in the last four years for this game. Usually on foot. And I am not even 30% of the way to …
Feeling lazy, AA1F and I drove up Mount Wachusett W1/CR-001. The summit parking was nearly empty, and we went no further. AA1F stuck his magmount 17 foot whip on the roof of Limey (my van of course). Nellie (our dog) was with us. As was Officer Clyde, the newest feline member of the household, on …