August 29, 2021
I visited my friends in my home town of Binghamton, NY and had to activate the first state park I'd ever went to while I was there. I spent a lot of time here over the years. I made 18 contacts with 4 park-to-park. This park was pretty crowded but I found a quiet spot to activate.
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August 23, 2021
I did a road trip to the northeast and stopped at Gettysburg on the way for an activation. I'd been to Gettysburg a few times with the Boy Scouts when I was a kid. I got there in the morning and there were very few people there, especially for the size and number of parking lots. I activated in one…
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July 13, 2021
This is a fun contest because the exchange is really easy. I ended up with 293 contacts. I tried to run for a bit but didn't have much luck so it was all search and pounce. This contest has a big dupe penalty so that made me doublecheck a few times to make sure I had their call right before I sent…
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June 30, 2021
I received my CWOPs CWT Bronze Participation Medal. Even though it's a participation medal it's not easy to get. It is award for completing at least 10 contacts each in at least 60 weekly CWT morse code contests in the year. There's 3 hour long sessions every Wednesday. I'm going for Gold this…
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June 28, 2021
We had our 3-club joint field day this year at the Clearwater Fire Training Facility. We ran 3 stations plus a 6meter FT8 station. We setup 5 antennas including my hexbeam that I used to have on the roof of my old house. The hexbeam went together real easy and worked amazing. We have a triplexer so…
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June 14, 2021
Super casual effort on 6m FT8 for the ARRL June VHF Contest, made 27 contacts with quite a few being with people in the club. Map of where my 6m signal was getting heard.
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June 10, 2021
I never had much interest in DMR but my friend sent me an Amazon link for a DMR radio for $20 so I couldn't resist. It's $40 now though, not sure it's worth that much. The brand is "Cotre", it's chinese, there's no manual and it doesn't have a display. jhart99 has done a good job of documenting…
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May 31, 2021
SX9V in Crete confirm our QSO from CQ WPX CW giving my 100th DXCC entity in LOTW, completing my 3 way digtial/voice/CW DXCC. Time to order the certificate.
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May 31, 2021
Made a minor effort in the WPX contest this weekend. Worked a station in Crete, I'm hoping he reports to LOTW as I don't have that one on CW and I'm at 99 for my DXCC. Map of contest, CQ WPX CW 2021
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May 29, 2021
Local Club, The Glorious Society of the Wormhole, held their annual hamfest this Saturday. It was very well attended. I ran a couple tables for SPARC and we made out pretty well. Also picked up an antenna for my handheld. This is the same location we do SPARCfest, we've already got the permit for…
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