Fox Huntin’ Season
…hunting the hidden RF transmitter hiding somewhere under something, over something, and around something else…
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“The Electronics Of Radio” NorCal 40B Transceiver Build Lab Notes: Problems 1 & 2
This may be a series of blog posts you choose to skip over. I am following David Rutledge’s text, “The Electronics of Radio” while building the NorCal 40B transceiver. This series of posts will not be a review of the book, nor is it a assembly manual. Rutledge presents a series of problems at the …
Adding A Servo Winch To A Vanquish VS4-10 RC Crawler (And Testing Voltage, Current, And Pulse Width Modulation Signal)
So… I told you I picked up a new hobby. I can’t even remember quite why exactly, but right before Christmas, I got it in my head that I wanted to get a radio controlled truck known as a “Crawler”. The name refers to the fact that the vehicle goes slowly but capably, i.e. crawls, …
How To Set Up WSJT-X With An Elecraft KX2 Transceiver For FT8 Using A Windows 10 Laptop PC Without An Additional External Soundcard (And An RC Crawler SOTA Adventure)
[Jump here or scroll down if you just want to get started with the instructions on how to set WSJT-X up on the Elecraft KX2 transceiver.] I messed up. I could not get the KX2 to transmit in SSB yesterday. On a truly beautiful spring afternoon AA1F, Georgie (our shepherd), and I set out to …
HamSCI Workshop 2025: A Little Bit Of Citizen Science-ing
[This post contains: my “fake” journal article which is actually a rather nice write-up of the very real work I have done if I do say so myself, a printable copy of my poster, and the raw and processed data from this experiment. I am putting it all on here because of the interest that …
The Kearsarge Saga: Five More SOTA Winter Bonus Points, Or How This Little Mountain Kicks Me Around Over And Over Again
I don’t like to talk too much about Kearsarge. This climb has kicked my backside four years in a row. Every year, I vow that this is the last time. But five SOTA points for a 4-mile, 1600 foot hike?! Like clockwork, greed gets the best of me, I forget my Kearsarge pain, and I …
With Love From South Boston: The ARRL DX SSB Contest
You remember that my non-resonant off-center fed dipole antenna runs along a privacy fence, barely 5 feet above the ground, and surrounded by triple deckers right? And then has a 125 feet run of lossy RG8X coax back to my shack’s standard 100 watt HF radio? Not to mention the giant noise floor of living …
Help! I Fell In A Hole! Click Below To See What Happens Next On “SOTA Mount Tecumseh 2025: Winter Bonus Season…”
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All Hams Need Comfy Slippers, Or, Are Hobbies A Waste Of Time?
Hobbies perplex me. I can be pretty intense about mine. I first put a pair of wheels on my feet when I was in junior high, and have been roller skating ever since. My Grandma taught me how to crochet when I was even younger than that. She would sit and sew a blanket while …