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A Secret Little Adventure Ham Radio Blog
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 …
I have done Winter Field Day every year since I became a ham. With a radio club in a rain storm (2020), in a museum train caboose in 0℉ weather (2021), in a severe blizzard in a tent in our backyard (2022), with another radio club in rustic cluster of cabins (2023), at the outbuilding …
Scroll to the bottom if you are only interested in the FD checklist! Is Field Day worth it? This year, more than any other, it seems this question was popping up on ham radio forums across the internet. Other versions seem to be what is the relevance of FD in the day and age of …
Gosh these are adorably cute little ham radios. And they got me 16 SOTA points this weekend on Mounts Greylock and Osceola!
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 …
Me, hitting the Reverse Beacon Network for Summits-On-The-Air of Overlook Mountain (W2/GC-112) in the Catskills of New York with a raging CW speed of 12 wpm at 6W.
As I mentioned on here before, I have been studying both the arduino and electronic circuits. The 48th video in Paul McWhorter’s youtube series on arduinos interfaced with an LCD display. While following the tutorial and watching my inspirational messages such “Hello World” and “I like pizza” transfer from the desktop arduino IDE to the …
AA1F and I met up with Nolan N2WU for a quick hike up Mount Norwottuck. Well, they were quick. I stayed at my usual turtle pace. Nolan activated CW with the KX2. AA1F set up his Yaesu FT891 and made QRO contacts And I operated 6 whole watts with the Yaesu FT817nd with CW and …
I won’t win any awards. But this is definitely a personal record!
[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 …