Working With The Little Rigs: Venus SW-3B And (tr)uSDX
Gosh these are adorably cute little ham radios. And they got me 16 SOTA points this weekend on Mounts Greylock and Osceola!
KM1NDY
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Farm Life: ARRL Field Day 2023
Just a quick look at AA1F and my 2B ENY Field Day from our farm in Upstate NY. The generator is running under the blue tarp. We got lucky, but rain had been predicted for much of the weekend. Most of it missed us fortunately! We did decide not to put up the military mast …
Happy Amateur Radio Day From King X-Ray One Queen Two Bravo Echo November Yankee!
If you understand that title, then you are one of us!! Hope to catch you on the air, especially the alpha stations back in EMA. I’ll miss you all! Hope to catch you on the air! KM1NDY
Networking Two Computers With N1MM Logger Plus And An Ethernet Cable (Plus WSJT-X & Fldigi) For ARRL Field Day
I am literally afraid to turn anything off. I am sitting here with two computers connected together with an ethernet cable. A Yaesu FT-991A on the left of me, and not one, but two Yaesu FT-891As on the right of me. One of the 891s is mine. The other is AA1F’s. Which I recently ran …
The SOTA Halfway Point
I just crossed over the 500 mark for Summits-On-The-Air. When I first started this program 3 1/2 years ago, and over a hundred mountains later, I would joke that it was going to take me a decade to get my Mountain Goat award. You need a thousand points. Haha?! But don’t worry, I don’t give …
All Track’s Lead To Chester: Caboosin’ Again At The Chester-On-Track Festival 2023
If there is anything I have learned about Chester, it’s that it has weather. Our first time at the caboose was Winter Field Day of 2021. There were record low temperatures that night and we were not sure we would be able to survive the cold quite literally. Our next time at the Caboose was …
Quicky But Goody: Stony Brook Conservation Land Amateur Radio Direction Finding Fox Hunt
The NEMass Fox Hunters were at it again with a hidden transmitter. This time at the Stony Brook Conservation Land in Westford MA. What an interesting piece of land. That I have never heard of. As usual, we arrived to the park fairly late in the afternoon. I was using my newest fox hunting set-up, …
My First K1USN Slow Speed Test: I May Be At the Bottom Of The List…But I Am On The List!
I have decided to get serious about CW. With a newly ordered Venus SW-3B QRP CW transceiver shipping out tonight, I want to solidify my morse code skills. So, between receiving a great tip about Morse Runner (thanks Joe!) and having a bit of free time now on at least some Sunday evenings for the …
Introducing Georgia The One-Eyed Pirate Puppy, And The Worst SOTA Ever (North Uncanoonuc)
After a pretty tough spring, the radio adventures are ready to gear up, and we have a new family member! Meet Georgia! Poor Georgia, a rescue from Buddy Dog Humane Society in Sudbury MA is some sort of shepherd-ish mutt. When she was a baby, her eye was bit out by another dog. Now, at …
Goodbye Bell Bells
If you see this, just do me a favor and pretend you didn’t. Just say a quiet prayer and let it go. I write this blog for myself. Not really a “dear diary”, but a reflection on life from the lens of an amateur radio operator, made publicly available for the curious. And in this …