KM1NDY
A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
We neglected to take photos until we were packing up and the daylight was dimming. The drab gray images fail to show the spurious 50F mid February New England day, the bright sunshine that blanketed us earlier, or the 30% chance of precipitation that never happened. Thus concluded the Second Annual Happy Hams Valentine’s Day …
My homemade antenna unun was rattling. Somehow the second bolt holding the SO-239 mount went missing and the nuts and washers were now free floating on the inside of the box. This meant that the capacitor leg soldered to that bolt was also dangling. At quarter to one, Winter Field Day was about to begin, …
If you see a coupla shiny glass marbles engraved with my name, mind giving them back? I am pretty sure I lost a few… I took a ride up to Salisbury Beach State Reservation to set up an antenna and try my hand at the North American QSO Party (NAQP SSB) for a few hours. …
Original Menu Settings for the FT-991A Settings in RED were switched back for normal radio operation with the others left the same. 31 = 4800bps32 = 10 ms33 = Enable60 = Off62 = PSK64 = 0Hz65 = 0Hz70 = Rear71 = Daky72 = Data74 = MIC76 = Daky77 = Data79 = 1200106 = MIC108 = …
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 …
(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 …
Me, the restored Ameco K-4 straight key, a bowl of popcorn, and exactly 1.5 cw qsos…Victory!
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 …