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Spread The Word!
I’ve watched a ton of YouTube videos while learning CW. Most every night, I fire up my Kindle or phone and copy along to someone else’s POTA activation. There’s several CW operators filming and posting their POTA activations to YouTube… Continue reading
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POTA The Destroyer
I happened across a live stream by Walt, Coastal Waves & Wire posing the topic of what POTA will mean to the solar minimum. The talked slipped into is POTA a contest and should it be allowed on the non-contesting… Continue reading
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Wires and Antenna Models
I’ve been playing at modeling antennas. It’s an on-and-off again thing where every time I play with the software I get a little closer to understanding it. I use MMANA-GAL to model. It’s free. It’s also fairly simple if you… Continue reading
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The best table at Bonham SP
I found a cool morning at US-2991 Bonham State Park. Not cool-neato, but cool-brrr. It was high 50’s when I arrived at 08:00 and dropped four or five degrees while I was there. The activation was a breeze, pun intended.… Continue reading
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Packin’ Light
I carry allot of gear. My mind plans in depth, a trait I developed in the Marines, to account for every possible circumstance then lay in reasonable contingencies for each. My thoughts swirl with, “If this happens, I’ll do that… Continue reading
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241109 @ Eisenhower State Park, QRP
Something about CW outside just really recharges my battery. Maybe it’s being outside after my first week of going back in to the gulag – err – office. Maybe it the sunshine after several days of overcast and misty days. … Continue reading
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241029 Another Oklahoma Raid
DitWit adventures continue! Inspired by “just going somewhere”, I found a cabin at McGee Creek State Park near Atoka, Oklahoma. The cabins, huts they call them, were rustic – table, bunk bed, no indoor plumbing – but they came with… Continue reading
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What if that was me?
The news from North Carolina has caused me to think and consider things a little differently. I don’t really focus on the news. I’ve just gathered little bits and tits from various sources that combine to paint part of a… Continue reading
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240927@US-0548 Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge
A friend and Elmer Mark, AA2MA, picked up an IC-706Mk2G for me from the Huntsville Hamfest. He found me a good deal and arranged all of the mailing. Here’s the backstory. I wanted an all mode, all band radio. I… Continue reading
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Unlicensed Preppers
“Just get the ham equipment so you have it. You don’t need a license to use it in an emergency.” Hmmm. I regularly read this on the Facebook feed for “Radio Preppers”. Gil Grusen founded and administers the feed where… Continue reading
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