September 3, 2025

CW presentation at Lakeland ARC

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 Lakeland after work for their monthly meeting on Monday Sept 8th. They do their meetings a little different. There’s a VE session directly before it and they don’t really do the old/new business thing just covered a couple small admin issues and then it was straight to the presentation. They have…

January 1, 2025

AAØO Year in Review 2024

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 Hermes Lite 2 SDR to make a CW skimmer, which is also the topic of my first SPARC Gap article(pg 6). My 2nd article was on vanity callsigns(pg 4). I attended Hamcation again in Orlando. I’m not sure I’m going to go this coming year, it’s literally exactly the same every year, same vendors in…