Category: Ham Gear
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Someone, please make me stop buying more radio stuff!!!

I need an intervention! I’m buying more radio gear than I can use at any given time. Ah!!!! Thankfully, I know enough about how to spend only what money I have to spend so I’m not going broke or missing bill payments. Anyway, some new purchased recently have been made. Andy Perryman, N0APX, is selling…
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ZUM Radio Mini 1.3 OLED ZUMspot Pi-Star Hotspot – Part 1

This is the first part of probably a three-part series of articles that walk through the process of setting up the ZUMspot Mini 1.3 OLED hotspot for connecting to YSF/FCS reflectors. I’m not much of a conversationalist. That’s what I always tell myself and most people when I engage in small talk. I mean, I’m…
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CWMorse Pocket Paddle Review

If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you’ll surely know that I am a fledgling CW student. I purchased, as my first-ever Morse paddle, a Vibroplex Iambic Standard paddle and quickly found that it would be much too heavy to carry around while operating portable. It sure is a great desk paddle, though! However,…