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Portable Vertical Antenna
Wishing a speedy recovery to the essential employee at Wolf River Coil, but in the meantime… Their antenna systems breaks down to five essential elements. Lets look at each and find some alternatives. The Loading CoilFirst, let’s talk about the… Continue reading
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240629@US-7684 Blue River State Fishing Lake
It seems so long since I’ve activated. My club held field day at a POTA entity last weekend so the QSOs I made counted as activations, but it didn’t feel like an activation. It felt like contesting and I’ve come… Continue reading
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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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