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A pic taken looking back at this week’s fun. Note two things. Not all lasers in pic are connected at

Continue readingA Fun Week

Second POTA. This was the first I actually was able to get going with SSB. OMG. My home station is

Continue readingLake Bistineau State Park, K-2366 ,26MAR23

Finally get my chance to go and do a POTA today. My Parks on the Air activation was just down

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When I originally set up my antenna I tuned the each band to be roughly in the middle of the

Continue readingAntenna Adjustment Time

This was my first field day and I had a blast. I went and joined the crew at W5WZ. I

Continue readingField Day, 2022

I had WSPR set up a few weeks ago. I did something with my radio setup and the easiest way

Continue readingDigital Modes!

Went over to Texas to get some things at Teskeys for the horses. On the way back had my first

Continue readingRadio setup getting there

I wanted to get on the air so did a temporary setup. The antenna, a Diamond CP5H, is mounted on

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Next it was time to build the grounding system. I wanted to surround the building as best I could with

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I had to build some tables for the upcoming projects. These are solid enough I think three people can do

Continue readingBuilding the tables