Tag: CW
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CW Message Exchange Examples
In this post, I’ll be consolidating many of the well-known CW contest exchanges into a single location, perhaps mostly for my own benefit, but if you happen to have stumbled upon this article while trying to find…
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POTA US-1596 – Seneca Creek State Park (MD)
I visited Seneca Creek State Park in Gaithersburg, Maryland again this week to attempt my first POTA CW activation. I regretfully report that I did not succeed. :-(
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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.
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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…
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 14
So, fun fact. I got my new-to-me Elecraft KX3 at a huge steal, it turns out. Just out of curiosity, I pieced together all of what I purchased and added it to my cart on the Elecraft site and realized I saved about 51% off retail.
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 12
I bought the rigid loop for the Chameleon F-Loop 3.0 magnetic loop antenna and it arrived this week. It was super simple to install and afterward, I was hoping to be able to easily tune 40 meters. However, I found it to be just as difficult to tune 40 meters as with the LMR400 cable…
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 11
I didn’t get on the air much at all this week. I tried to tune the Chameleon F-Loop 3.0 magnetic loop antenna for 40 meters earlier this week and got so fed up with its inability to land on a usable SWR that I gave up and packed it all back into its carrying bag.
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 10
Not much going on in terms of amateur radio this week other than focusing most of my free time on CW Academy homework. One week into the 8-week course and I’m having a good time.
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 9
I hope everyone had a great week this week. I know I did. I recently purchased a Mini 1.3 OLED ZUMspot hotspot from a fellow Vienna Wireless Society member and got that up and running here at home using Pi-Star.
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