Amateur Radio
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 …
Longmont Halloween Parade Ham Radio Support Read MoreRecently I purchased a new HT – a Yaesu VX-6R. I got this radio because of its IPX-7 rating. I plan on being involved with more activities that involve being …
Squelch Confusion Read MoreYesterday I went to Sawhill Ponds just outside Boulder, Colorado. I have had a cold (no, not COVID) for 4 days and I was getting really sick of staying in …
Parks On the Air At Sawhill Ponds SSB-Only This Time Read MoreI recently purchased a Pixie Ham Radio kit, after hearing about it on a recent Longmont Amateur Radio Club Tuesday night Hamlet Net It was enjoyable to take it from …
Assembling the S-Pixie Ham Radio Read MoreRecently the Parks on the Air organization added more places where you could do a POTA activation. While looking at the map on the POTA.app website, I noticed a park …
Sawhill Ponds POTA Activation Read MoreI recently traveled out of my local (repeater) area to the Wasatch mountains in Utah and had a positive experience using a handheld scanner to supplement playing ham radio. About …
Scanners – a lonely Ham’s Best Friend Read MoreFor a portion of day 1 of the ARRL September VHF Contest I operated at the summit of Sugarloaf Mountain in Boulder, Colorado. Rewind a few days ago. I was …
ARRL September VHF Contest & SOTA Experiments Read MoreI tried to participate in the Colorado QSO Party. They were talking about the Colorado QSO Party on the LARC Tuesday night Hamlet a few days prior to the party. …
Colorado QSO Party 2021 Read MoreOn Saturday, August 28, I had the most fun you could have with Technician-level privleges. It started a little like this. Tuesday Chuck, K0ITP, our club’s President, sends me an …
Ham Radio for Gore Race 2021 Read MoreEver since I particiated in Winter Field Day and seeing the limitations of pretty much every SSB frequency being taken-up by people with more power than me, and having some …
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