September 16, 2020
Got some cards from the Bureau in the mail. VE6SH is the IARU president, also got 5X2S from the Uganda DXpedition, also HA7TM, a guy who's always on a radio. On a side note, at last nights VE session there was an older gentleman and lady who didn't know each other. While we were grading their tests…
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September 8, 2020
I received the 13 Colonies Event QSL today. I got the "All CW" endorsement, along with getting the "Clean Sweep".
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August 5, 2020
I put in 6.5 hours on the North American QSO Party CW contest over the weekend. I had similar problems with QSB during the day with signals faded out. Hopefully they didn't have the issue on their end and I got in the log. I made two contacts with Dr. Ted Rappaport N9NB who did the speech at the…
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July 21, 2020
I put in a part time effort (5 hours out of 10) in the North American QSO Party RTTY contest for July. I made 120 contacts, one was Hawaii. I was on Team Aardvarks-1, we had enough people to field 2 teams this time around with people from the SPARC club. Hopefully interest continues to grow. I had…
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July 12, 2020
I entered as mixed mode CW & SSB but most of my 300 contacts were on CW. I tried to do some SSB but it seemed like every station had a pileup going and I wasn't getting through. This contest involves a bonus for contacting the HQ station of each country's radio association, I ended up contacting 49…
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July 10, 2020
I read an article about a QFH antenna in the May 2018 QST magazine (page 38, link for ARRL members) that could be used for receiving NOAA satellite weather imagery using an RTL-SDR dongle and a Raspberry Pi. This is a very common project with RTL-SDR dongles(which are $20 USB radio receivers),…
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June 29, 2020
Since we were unable to do the multi-club event at the fire station this year, I planned a camping trip to a POTA park with my g/f for Field Day. I wanted to do some primitive camping but at a place where you can park at the site. This type of camping is pretty rare in Florida. I found that Ocala…
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June 6, 2020
Today I was honored to join the CW Ops as member #2626. To join you have to be nominated by a member and then sponsored by 3 other members that have at least 2 contacts with you at 25 Words Per Minute(WPM). I wouldn't be able to do that if it weren't for the CW Academy. I highly recommend the CWA…
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May 29, 2020
Last night I completed the CW Academy Advanced class, which is the 4th CW Academy class I've taken. I highly recommend the CW Academy for learning morse code. The reason it worked for me is the accountability. There's 4-5 other guys in the class, and it's a video chat so they can see you, and it…
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May 22, 2020
I took a day off from work and decided to get out for an activation. This park takes only 2 turns from my house but is around 45 mins away. I scoped it out via google maps and went to the North entrance as I prefer to activate in out of the way locations. I used my foldup cart to haul the gear via…
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