Amateur Radio
Here’s a YouTube video of my travels this weekend. Planning I’d never attended a Rocky Mountain Ham Radio’s TechFest and received an email about one that was coming up recently. …
New Mexico TechFest and 5 POTA Activations Read More
Last night, after a happy hour with some friends, I came home and switched on my IC-705 and browsed to the POTA spots page, filtering on CW only. I noticed …
First CW QSO Read More
Failing at SOTA Yesterday morning, I got an interesting email from k0nr. In it, he was talking about an easy Front Range SOTA. I was inspired since it was so …
How to Fail at SOTA and POTA Read More
What a rabbit hole I’ve been entering the past few days! I’ve been trying to figure out ways to make FT8 and FT4 more human and more fun to operate. …
Ham Radio FT4 Russian Woodpecker Read More
I broke-down and purchased radios even cheaper than the Baofeng UV5R! I wanted to get small, simple radios that my XYL and I could use for intercomming around our house …
Retevis RT-22 Simple FRS Radios for Family Read More
Ok now the rubber hits the road. Now we’re going to try to get the station assembled using a Raspberry Pi 4 with KM4ACK’s Build-A-Pi which already has DireWolf. To …
Packet Radio Part 3 – Raspberry Pi 4, DireWolf, XASTIR Read More
Woke up on Black Friday and flipped on FT4 on 20 meters. There were a lot of EU stations that I could hear so I hovered between 35 and 50 …
Great Propagation to Europe This Morning! Read MoreLast Tuesday, after our weekly Hamlet net, LARC President, Chuck, K0ITP asked if I had played with LinBPQ. I hadn’t but was interested. So I told Chuck that I would …
Packet Radio Part 2 – APRS Read MoreI volunteered with my ham radio club – the Longmont Amateur Radio Club – to provide support for the city of Longmont’s annual Turkey Trot. Here’s a video of the …
LARC Turkey Trot Read MoreI volunteered with my club, the Longmont Amateur Radio Club and we provided communications support for the annual Halloween Parade in Longmont, Colorado. As usual, I made a video on …
Longmont Halloween Parade Ham Radio Support Read More