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20241212 - sBitx V3

New Radio Alert! My Gigaparts order just arrived... I am excited about the possibilities of this hacker type HF rig. POTA? Digital? HUGE SCREEN!

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20241206 - POTA Hunt

Interesting airwave pipeline up the Appalachian mountain range this morning. There is a weather front moving in that same direction.

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20241206 - Xiegu G90

After getting the POTA bug, I decided I wanted a portable rig to take to the park. There are generally two radios that keep popping up on YouTube for this application: The Xiegu G90 and the Yaesu FT-891. After doing research on both radios, I kept mulling over the

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20241205 - POTA Hunt

Different arcs of parks today...

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20241204 - POTA Hunt

Today’s QSL’s and #potahunting. Early morning was pretty clear shot up and down the East coast.

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20241203 - POTA Hunt

Good #POTA hunting contacts today. 10M/15M have been good band for me lately. Two more DX POTA parks!

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20241202 - POTA Hunt

Early morning 10M was clear to Europe for #POTA. I am amazed at what a ~53′ wire in the back yard can do! I am thinking that arc of parks in the Euro zone are all about where the 2nd or 3rd bounce of signals land as the skip across

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20241126 - Yaesu FT-991A

NEW RADIO ALERT! My first ownership of a "big rig" (not those little HT things!) Gigaparts had a sale a few days ago on the Yaesu FT-991A at the lowest price I have seen. After using Ken's 991A, really became at home with this great

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20241109 - DX on FT8

One thing that is really cool about HAM radio is that you can connect to places one may have no idea where they are and opens up a new world of discovery. Today I made a contact on 10m to the country of Malawi, as well as my first Oceania

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20241102 - QSL Card Antartica!

Russian science center in Antartica! I know it is FT8 and not SSB, but how great is this contact for a new ham to get!

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20241101 - QSL Cards

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20241018 - QSL Card

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20241004 - QSL Card

QSO Card + POTA Hunt

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20241003 - QSL Cards

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20240930 - QSL Cards

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20240927 - QSL Cards

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20240926 - QSL Cards

Several QSL Cards today:

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20240925 - QSL Cards

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20240925 - QSL Cards 3

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20240925 - QSL Cards 2

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20240925 - First solo HF experience

After building a 20M inverted V antenna, September 25th was my first day of solo HF radio experience borrowing Ken's 991A and power supply. I cannot thank Ken enough for his help and letting me take the wheel and drive in this hobby. Here are my first contacts

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20240921 - POTA? What's this Park Thing?

!Welcome to #POTA As a new HAM, everything is exciting, and sometimes a bit overwhelming with a learning curve. My friend KX4BY graciously started mentoring me in the many ways of HAM radio this summer, and introduced me to Parks On The Air. I had no idea what contesting was,

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20240914 - General + Extra now!

Well, thanks to my friend KX4BY for pushing me the last month or so to just go all the way to Extra with the study and take the exams, try to get General and Extra if I could. I studied for hours every day, every moment I could squeeze out.

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* Software: WSPD * Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3B + Dual channel hat

20220717 - Getting into HAM Radio

While I have wanted to explore Amateur Radio for a long time, I thought I could not learn all the code and technical radio wave stuff with my also busy life with a young family growing. I started to see GMRS radio was becomming a popular thing for the Jeep/