February 12, 2023
Hamcation fell on the 2nd weekend in February again this year so I was able to attend both Friday and Saturday since the club meeting is on the first Friday of the month. I picked up a N3ZN CW key to add to my collection of expensive CW keys. I also attended the FCG contest dinner where I won a…
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February 4, 2023
I've been thinking about a 2nd antenna since I've got a Flexradio with a lot of antenna ports and only one connected. I came across a receive only antenna called a Loop on Ground. It's like a poor man's beverage antenna as it is only 15'x15' square. Matt Roberts KK5JY has a great write up on it at…
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January 15, 2023
Was on team W1YL Memorial-8 with the Florida Contest Group. This is a new personal best in this NAQP CW contests with 24,687 points. Though I might have less than that officially because I'm not 100% sure I got South Dakota on 80m because a lid doubled on the op. Didn't operate for 5 hours while…
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January 9, 2023
RTTY Roundup 2023 Didn't go hard on this one but it was fun. Got The Gambia on 10m, pretty sure that's a new one for me.
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January 3, 2023
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December 31, 2022
I did a lot of stuff with the radio club this year, I wrote a Year in Review about it on the club webpage. My big radio things this year were going to the FCG Contest Dinner at Hamcation, usually it's on the same day as the club meeting. I got to meet quite a few people I knew from on the air and…
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December 12, 2022
Made a quick stop at K-8348 on a drive across the state to do an activation. Didn't have tons of time, got 12 contacts then had two people call on top of each other for 5 minutes straight so that I couldn't copy either of them and both responded to any partial call I gave, so I packed it up. Nice…
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December 4, 2022
We had another SPARC in the Park event with the club. Decent turn out and lots of contacts got made. There were a few more people than this, I should've take more photos
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November 28, 2022
I set out with a goal of 600 contacts, last year I got 371 and I wasn't very focused. Ended up with 21.5 hours according to N1MM+ out of the 48. After the Saturday night I didn't think I was going to make 600 but things got easier on Sunday and I moved right along. The only one I think I missed…
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November 20, 2022
Stopped on my way back from a trip to Jax. Really nice brick road into the forest and the dirt road were in great shape. Unfortunately it started raining about 10 minutes after I got setup so I cut it short with only 12 contacts.
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