August 9, 2026
New website is live. I'm going to strive to update it more often though I doubt I'll ever beat the 78 posts I did in 2019. The old website ran on Wordpress and I saw there was a pretty severe vulnerability on that. I had it updated so it wasn't effecting me. I don't really use the features of…
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February 17, 2026
Received the ARRL DX Trident award in the mail. This is for getting 100 confirmed DX entities on Phone, CW and Digital.
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February 13, 2026
Skipped Hamcation this year and just went to the contest dinner on the way to my folk's place. Dave KM3T gave the speech. Amanda won a $100 DX Engingeering gift certificate. Sat at a table with some WRTC competitors so that was fun.
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December 21, 2025
Manned the station at W4AVM on the American Victory ship in Tampa for the Tampa Bay Lighted boat parade. Lots of people on the ship, not many interested in radio except this kid that was super into the morse code paddle, he didn't care about radio just the paddle noise. Mike dressed up for it,…
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November 9, 2025
Ran the SPARCFest table again this year, got there at 6am to setup: Decent turnout Ran a VE session and tried to sell millions of resistors we got from a company that was throwing them away. I ended up throwing them away.
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October 29, 2025
DX trip to the island on Montserrat in the Caribbean for CW WW SSB contest
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September 3, 2025
Ed N2TE found my reserve beacon network node and hit me up on email about doing a presentation on the RBN setup as well as CW for the Lakeland radio club. I had done a general CW presentation at a computer security conference a couple years ago so I added the RBN info to that. I drove up to…
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January 1, 2025
Another very slow year for blog posts, I'll try to do better in 2025. I did write two articles for the resurrected SPARC Gap club newsletter, we were finally able to get a volunteer and he eventually became the club secretary. I did complete one of last years goals and one from 2022, using the…
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July 24, 2024
I saw the CQ WW CW Results were available and I got 9th place in call area 4, out of 85 so not bad. If I had got the 700Q's I was aiming for I may have gotten 3rd.
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May 20, 2024
I received the TX5S QSL today. I have so many Q's they had to send me a supplemental card(there's 1 10m CW contact on that one). This was a really fun one, some contacts were easy, some were hard, or I just needed to come back later when the pile up was gone. I even broke out the mic for some SSB.
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