Viva La Roller Sk8ers!
The day they knocked down the palais My sister stood and cried. “Come Dancing”, The Kinks, 1983
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A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
Bristol County Repeater Association Foxhunt #4. Two Words: Failure.
As usual AA1F and I would head down to the southeastern corner of Massachusetts to play a road rally (for all you motorheads!) style game of hide-and-seek with radios. This amateur radio direction finding event, colloquially called “foxhunting”, will have us driving in circles inside a 10-mile radius for 5 hours. Our primary goal is …
Appalachian Trail’s 100th Anniversary: Celebrating Ham Style with AT-On-The-Air
There would be no way for you to know that my lifelong dream is to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. So when Mike WB2FUV put out the call to celebrate Benton MacKaye’s 1921 inspirational publication “An Appalachian Trail: A project in regional planning” by lighting up the AT, Marc AA1F, Nellie the Dog, and I were …
POTA Late Shift At Castle Island K-6876
Thanks Hunters!
CB Whip vs. 10M Double Bazooka: An Antenna Testing Pilot Experiment Using WSPR
OBJECTIVE: Develop a pilot experiment to determine if Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR) can be used by amateur radio operators to test radiofrequency propagation, and in particular compare antenna systems. DESIGN: Erect two 10M antennas in close proximity to one another. One antenna is a citizen’s band (i.e. CB) 11M steel whip on the roof …
Radio Public Service: Staffing The Set The Pace 5K Run And Walk
K1USN put out the call that a couple more amateur radio operators were needed to staff the 10th Annual Set The Pace 5K Fun Run and Walk in Pembroke MA. Despite not actually knowing where Pembroke was (I’ve lived in Massachusetts for more than 20 years), I decided to take the plunge into radio public …
SOTA The Easy Way: Driving Up Mounts Equinox and Ascutney
Sometimes you just want to take the easy way up, ya know? So after our pretty intense backpacking Summits-On-The-Air trek the week before, this week we wanted to lazily drive up a couple peaks for our points. And of course, once we get a little taste of sleeping outdoors…well, we want to keep it up. …
I Just WSPRed Into Australia!
Twice! 200mW on 20M on a 40M OCF dipole sitting 5 feet off the ground from the heart of South Boston…how cool!!
Question: What do the Icom IC-705, Fldigi, and the ElectronicsUSA Whiterook MK-48 Morse Code Keyer Have in Common? (Answer: Me!)
Techie wearables are all the rage these days… and I sure as heck don’t want to be left out! So, when I learned about the ElectronicsUSA.com’s Whiterook MK-48 Mini Combo Key, I jumped at the chance to get one. It is a straight key and iambic paddle combination device, and it weighs only 2 ounces. …
Mounts Whiteface and Passaconaway: An Overnight SOTA 20 Pointer, Or How I Lost 30+ Pounds In One Weekend
We are pretty well equipped for backpacking. A mid-September hike in the White Mountains complete with dual Summits-On-The-Air activations of Mt. Whiteface and Mt Passaconaway seemed like a perfect way for AA1F and I to spend a weekend. This picture of the trailhead map cuts off a little bit of the route. Essentially, our initial …