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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How to Fail at SOTA and POTA
Failing at SOTA Yesterday morning, I got an interesting email from k0nr. In it, he was talking about an easy Front Range SOTA. I was inspired since it was so …
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Ham Radio FT4 Russian Woodpecker
What a rabbit hole I’ve been entering the past few days! I’ve been trying to figure out ways to make FT8 and FT4 more human and more fun to operate. …
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Retevis RT-22 Simple FRS Radios for Family
I broke-down and purchased radios even cheaper than the Baofeng UV5R! I wanted to get small, simple radios that my XYL and I could use for intercomming around our house …
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Packet Radio Part 3 – Raspberry Pi 4, DireWolf, XASTIR
Ok now the rubber hits the road. Now we’re going to try to get the station assembled using a Raspberry Pi 4 with KM4ACK’s Build-A-Pi which already has DireWolf. To …
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Great Propagation to Europe This Morning!
Woke up on Black Friday and flipped on FT4 on 20 meters. There were a lot of EU stations that I could hear so I hovered between 35 and 50 …
Great Propagation to Europe This Morning! Read MorePacket Radio Part 2 – APRS
Last Tuesday, after our weekly Hamlet net, LARC President, Chuck, K0ITP asked if I had played with LinBPQ. I hadn’t but was interested. So I told Chuck that I would …
Packet Radio Part 2 – APRS Read MoreLARC Turkey Trot
I volunteered with my ham radio club – the Longmont Amateur Radio Club – to provide support for the city of Longmont’s annual Turkey Trot. Here’s a video of the …
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I volunteered with my club, the Longmont Amateur Radio Club and we provided communications support for the annual Halloween Parade in Longmont, Colorado. As usual, I made a video on …
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