Tag: HAM Radio
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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. 13
I activated Powhatan State Park in Powhatan, Virginia this past weekend (hence why this post is a day late). I only activated via FT8 again. I really need to get rid of the mic fright and activate these parks SSB sometime. The more I do that, the better I will become at it. I also…
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POTA US-1313 – Powhatan State Park (VA)
I recently activated US-1313 while on a camping trip to Powhatan State Park near the center of the state of Virginia. Band conditions were good and while I am yet to do much operating on SSB or CW, FT8 came through for me as always and allowed me to activate the park twice in one…
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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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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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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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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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