KM1NDY
A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
Slow Scan Television (SSTV) with the Icom-IC705, MMSSTV software, and KiwiSDR
It’s a blustery night in New England, a global pandemic, and I am a bit under the weather myself. A great excuse to stay in and learn a new ham radio mode! Earlier this week I was participating in a 2M traffic net when I heard another ham mention he was getting into slow scan …
Back With The Great Hill Gang: 20 Degrees And A Foot Of Snow!
(Special thanks to Joe WB1EMS for letting me use his pictures!) The Great Hill Gang’s monthly “Day of Radio” perched on top of Great Hill Park in Weymouth MA is quickly becoming one of my favorite radio events. Organizer Mike K1UVH is fond of saying “We are not fair weather hams.” And, well, they are …
New Year’s Resolution? ARRL Straight Key Night
Me, the restored Ameco K-4 straight key, a bowl of popcorn, and exactly 1.5 cw qsos…Victory!
Gaming The Ham Radio System: Summits-On-The-Air (SOTA) Winter Bonus Points
SOTA ain’t easy. Summits-On-The-Air is a game with essentially one prize for radio hikers: The Mountain Goat. In order to become a Mountain Goat, you need to “activate” (the term used for hiking up a mountain and operating an amateur radio from its summit) enough mountains to get 1000 points. Based on elevation, the shortest …
W1E Special Event Station: The 2nd Annual Hams All-Holidays On-Air Celebration
[Special thanks to my dear friend Barbara KC1KGS for providing me with photos for this; all of the good pics are hers!] When I chose “W1E” as a special event call sign for the First Annual Hams All-Holidays On-Air Celebration during the height of the pandemic in December 2020, it was no accident. W1E, or …
I Hunted CW POTA For The First Time!
Fldigi decode of AB1II’s 10wpm CW: “AB1II K E CQ POTADE AB1II K AMINDW TU U R *5 NH NN K JU K 8 4 25 T M U 73I” KM1NDY’s head copy decode of Fldigi “AB1II CQ Parks-On-The-Air from AB1II. KM1NDY Thank you. You are 5 9 9. POTA site K-8425 (Quincy Shores Reservation). …
Night Hikes And Tarp Shelters: Winter Summits-On-The-Air Is Here!
Mount Norwottuck (W1/CR-004) in the Mount Holyoke Range State Park (K-2449) is a baby mountain. It is just over 1100 feet in elevation and less than 4 miles out-and-back. So AA1F and I each brought our summer overnight packs complete with our own radio stations (including 20M, 40M, and 80M band pass filters so we …