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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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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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241005@US-3005 Eisenhower State Park and GCARC Fall Campout
Well, I just stepped into a steaming file of horse apples of my own making. I write these things, these blog posts, in Windows OneNote. Everything I’ve written to date is in my OneNote, including the two hours I’ve written… 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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240921 The Great Oklahoma Raid
I woke Saturday morning with the urge to make a quick raid across the Red River to steal some parks – unexplored territory and parks I’ve never activated. A recovering Oklahoman himself, there’s no better guide and interpreter than W5DRT,… Continue reading
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240905 Queen Wilhelmina Rove
I like to Rove. I like the challenge and I like the sense of accomplishment. I feel like a “real” portable operator – all the planning, the packing and unpacking, the setting up and tearing down, the making solid contacts… Continue reading
