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Summer Field Day Preps
Summer field day is neigh! (Note: The image for this post is what AI thinks of radio field day) ARRL Field Day is when amateur radio clubs come out to play and I have a great club. As I’ve stated… Continue reading
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Laptop Woes
I’m back – mostly. My laptop deserted me and it’s taken a few days to put things back together. As a “getting back to the blog” event, I’ll share my blunders and leave it to you to pick the lessons… Continue reading
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240527@US-0548 Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge
Memorial Day Activation Saturday, a friend from the radio club asked me if Memorial Day bothered me. I immediately answered, no, and it doesn’t. But it does, but not how he’d think. I can’t speak for all vets, but I… Continue reading
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240526@US-6553 Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site
I’m amazing. This was my 266th activation and you might think it would start to get boring. Not when I’m there. I’m a seemingly endless source of unique and unexpected blunders that keep it fresh and new. No sooner do… Continue reading
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US-6553 Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site
I love my Ham Club, the Grayson County Amateur Radio Club K5GCC, but I’m not much of a meeting guy. The meetings are fantastic, well organized, informative, and the people are great to be around, but the monthly meeting runs… Continue reading
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IC-706MK IIG
Mike – Tips, tricks, and what I learned about your rig are below. The rest of you can move along… unless you have and IC-706. Auto Repeater pg 32 and 53This is a function that sets repeater shift automatically. You… Continue reading
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240518-20 Weekend POTA
Note: The image for this post is from the word Press AI. You just click a button, and it whips up an image based on the content of the post. I have no idea what those antennas are and I… Continue reading
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240511@US-3005 Eisenhower State Park
Every app and webpage I frequent said the bands would be noisy and closed and they were not wrong. But I went anyway. A slow day in the park beats any day at work, right? Turns out, HF bands weren’t… Continue reading
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20240510@US-3005 Eisenhower State Park
A beautiful Friday, sunny and about 80 – there won’t be many more like this and I’m glad I got out to a park. I tried Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge but found it under water from the recent rains. Really… Continue reading
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Embrace diversity!
We have this common draw, this shared fascination, a compulsion for some, that is amateur radio. In this world of instantly accessible and freely shared information, it’s so natural to burrow into a path of complete focus, hyper-focus. Ever notice… Continue reading
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