Archives: 2018
August 9, 2018
I received the QSL from the 13 Colonies event. "Clean Sweep" with the two extra stations. This was a fun one. This weekend I'm going on a road trip and bringing the radio. I plan on doing some POTA activations so I'll have some new content soon.
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August 1, 2018
I received a QSL card from a contact with NASA. I also made a contact to Hawaii during the IARU HF contest. Unfortunately this guy doesn't used LOTW and Hawaii is the last one I need for Worked All States. I'm going to look into getting it check in person but they way I read it, they don't link in…
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July 16, 2018
Last weekend was the IARU HF Championship. It's a 24 hour contest with HQ stations in the different zones. My new call is a zone 7 call but I am in zone 8. Some logging software automatically populate the zone number so I had to correct quite a few people. I was wondering if that was going to be an…
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July 3, 2018
There's a 13 Colonies radio special event celebrating the 4th of July. I've enjoyed it so far, there's 13 stations, one in each state with short K2x calls and a couple special event stations. They're on all different modes and they all have pileups going, some really deep(Rhode Island). I've got 9…
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June 28, 2018
I've been applying for shorter, easier to say call-signs. I feel like I'm talking forever saying "Kilo X-Ray 4 Hotel Lima" and I received AA0O, Alpha Alpha Zero Ocean rolls off the tongue better. I'll be updating the domain name at some point but for now its staying at kx4hl.com
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June 25, 2018
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June 12, 2018
Received these two QSL cards yesterday. Kosovo is #30 most wanted DX location, Cameroon is less rare at #124, it took awhile to get through to the operator to get the QSO but I got him(and the card to prove it!)
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June 2, 2018
I made my first CW contact. It was with my instructor Pete from the CW Academy. I think it went well, it was a little nerve-wracking in the class sending morse code with 4 guys watching you, it's a different kind of pressure when its going out over the air. It's like you can almost feel the power…
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June 2, 2018
I received some interesting QSL cards this week. I made my first contact with Norway so I sent out a card and got one back pretty quick. He even included a letter explaining how postal costs have gone up but since it was my first LA contact he'd cover it and sent back my green stamps. Also got…
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June 2, 2018
I went to help members of the SPARC club take down Doug, KB0SDQ's 50ft tower since he's moving. He had a hexbeam on the top, he said it worked really well, I bet it did up there. We had a little issue with the rope as we lowered it down with a truck and one of the hexbeam support poles broke. Quite…
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