KM1NDY
A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
[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 …
First off, go to Thomas Witherspoon K4SWL’s blog on this. I stole the idea directly from him. Well from a reader (Petr OK1RP) of the blog that commented that this was possible, and then Thomas documented it. I have been dipping my toe into CW for a while now. I am a member of the …
Mt. Garfield in the Franconia Range of the White Mountains is not actually a difficult hike. Sure its 4500 feet in elevation, the 17th tallest “4000 footer” in New Hampshire, and a solid 10 mile round trip walk with a 3000 foot vertical gain…but its still…Easy. Ish. It’s kind of an endurance mountain, if there …
Skip KB1CNB sent around the notice that the Bristol County Repeater Association (BCRA) was doing another fox hunt and the games began! These amateur radio direction finding exercises, where Skip and now Kevin N1KJS radiate boops and beeps from a transmitter in their vehicles somewhere on the Massachusetts and Rhode Island border, and the rest …
I recently posted about the Venus DR4020 digimodes radio and the Evolve III Maestro cheap-o computer. I finally had a chance to take them out in to the field, along with my no-solder diy 20M dipole. I ran FT8 on 20M. What can I say? It worked… Getting out of Douglas State Forest on the …
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 …