I’m Baaaack!
Tonight I finally joined my local club’s ragchew net. You see, I was living in an apartment in Santa Rosa and having any kind of stealth antenna was a real …
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Portugal at 9 watts.
Today I worked FT8 on my 3rd floor apartment balcony. My setup was my IC-705. A 3ah Bioenno battery that was half full enabling about 9 watts output. Connected to …
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12v USB-C Power Delivery Plug
Update: Don’t buy this plug. This plug is unable to negotiate whatever power my HP laptop wants when it tries to charge over the plug’s USB-C PD port. It works …
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Morse Code
I saw a great article posted on the Indian Peaks Ham Radio Club posted by Charley, and wanted to echo it here as I thought it was a great article …
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PacifiCon 2023
Yesterday (Saturday) I went to PacifiCon. This was the first time I’d went and I figure since I just moved to California, why not get to know the local ham …
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New Elecraft KH1 CW Radio
While I was a PacifiCon yesterday, I got to play with the new Elecract KH1 CW Radio. It’s incredibly small and full-featured. By that I mean it comes with EVERYTHING …
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ESP32 Morse Tutor Update and Pinout
On http://w8bh.net‘s site there are instructions to build your own morse tutor. There are step by step instructions using a popular STM32 microcontroller. He also has included an updated build …
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Notable CW Frequencies
I recently realized that there are some CW frequencies that are watering holes for certain things. This is really for my own benefit, but here are some that I’ve found. …
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I came across this page from QCX Labs. It talks about a monthly QSO party for CW operators. Unfortunately, it seems heavily-favored towards people that have QCX products but I …
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Morse Tutor
It’s alive! It took multiple days to get the screen working but its finally working! I breadboarded the Morse Tutor at http://w8bh.net because I wanted to practice CW when not …
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