Category: Newsletter
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 24

I got sick, bought a new radio, sold an antenna, bought more CW accessories but, played very little radio this week.
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 23

North Amercian QSO Party – CW and K1USN test in one weekend? Sounds good to me!
Matthew Swint
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 22

Not a lot going on this week due to frequent thunderstorms and getting married.
Matthew Swint
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 21

I finally activated US-1596 Seneca Creek State Park near Gaithersburg, Maryland via CW. That was a lot of fun and only took me three tries!
Matthew Swint
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 20

Hello everyone. This week was another fun week of getting more CW experience under my belt, or shall I say “between my fingers”. Also, it was another week of buying a bunch of amateur radio stuff that I think I need. I gotta stop doing that.
Matthew Swint
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 18

ARRL Field Day 2025 is in the books. I bought some more ham gear and books. All in all, a great week for amateur radio.
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 17

Lake Anna State Park now has K2MAS in the park activators list. However, once again, I only got my activation on FT8. This time it was not due to a lack of attempt. It was due to the scorching heat of our hottest weekend of the year so far. We had temperatures hovering in the…
Matthew Swint
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 16

I activated a new park this week after a workday. That was fun and it opens some doors to more frequent activating and general radio operating since I have some QRP kits now that are simple to travel with and deploy quickly.
Matthew Swint
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 15

No luck with getting out with my KX3 kit this week. As I’m sure most hams are well aware, this week brought us a nice coronal mass ejection from our friend, Sol. Band conditions were certainly affected by that for a while this week. The solar weather cleared up just in time for our local…