Tag: Expired Ham
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 31

Bought a new soldering iron. What fun things can I build with it? Antennas? Sounds like a plan!
Matthew Swint
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 29

Send those letters to your Congressmen urging them to pass the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act! Also, I recap the previous week of amateur radio hobby participation. Tape measure yagi anyone?
Matthew Swint
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 26

CW Academy is in full swing again for the Fall classes. I hunted other CW ops during the K1USN SST and participated in the CWOps CW Open contest for the first time this week.
Matthew Swint
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Expired Ham – Vol. 1 Iss. 25

I’m getting excited for my upcoming CWOps Academy Intermediate class which begins at the end of August and runs until mid-October. I started playing around with straight keys this week. Still struggling a bit with the KH1.
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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