Tag: Portable
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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. 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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VWS Annual Spring Picnic and Fox Hunt
My first in-person activity as a new member of the Vienna Wireless Society took place on April 26th at Roundtree Park in Falls Church, Virginia at the club’s annual Spring picnic. This year, there was a fox hunt event organized by club member Cliff Mauck, KE4PDS. Cliff assembled and hid two radio transmitters inside the…
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POTA US-0712 – Manassas National Battlefield (VA)
Carrying the momentum forward from yesterday’s successful activation of US-5510, I ventured just down the road from there and activated US-0712 Manassas National Battlefield today. The morning started off a bit dreary outside as a bit of rain had made its way through the area overnight. I was a bit hesitant to get out at…
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POTA US-5510 – Conway Robinson Memorial State Forest (VA)
BREAKING NEWS!! K2MAS is now a Parks On The Air (POTA) activator. Today was such a lovely day outside (partly cloudy, cool (59ºF) with a gentle breeze) and I had an itch to get out finally and do some POTA activities. I’d never done such a thing but I figured it can’t be too difficult…
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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,…
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Homemade Antenna Guy Ring
I was looking for a way to guy my vertical whip antennas when deploying them. The MFJ 1979 that I have is nearly 17-foot long and when fully extended it can catch quite a bit of wind, and it’s fairly flaccid anyway. After I recently purchased the Wolf River Coils Silver Bullet Platinum Take-It-Along kit,…
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