Archives: June 2019
June 30, 2019
I've seen the sign for this park many times on the way to my parents house. I left a little earlier on this trip to beat the heat and give a little extra time for an activation. This way my first real test of the Wolf River Coil I picked up at Hamvention. Band conditions have been really poor…
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June 23, 2019
This weekend was ARRL Field Day. This is also my 100th blog post, Yay! I was on the committee for Field Day this year. We had conference calls and did a dry run to make sure we had all the connectors and accessories we needed. Quite a bit of planning is required to make this event go smoothly. It…
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June 20, 2019
I've mentioned Dan K1TO a couple times, he's probably the most famous ham I know. I worked him in the 6m contest a couple weekends ago and sent out for his card and quickly got a reply. He sent out a bunch of tips to the Florida Contest Group on how to work the contest and that got me interested in…
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June 11, 2019
Dan K1TO sent a post to the Florida Contest Group about how to do the ARRL VHF contest using 6m so I figured I'd try it. I mostly worked on my app and just flipped back to WSJT-X to check to see if there were any new callsigns available to work every once and awhile. Most were in Florida. Dan is…
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June 8, 2019
Today we had the field day dry run. We setup all the computers and made sure we had all the cabling we need. There's a lot of cables to run 3 stations. We also have 1000ft of coax. At winter field day we had a bunch of 100ft coax all jumpered together and it was a chore to troubleshoot the issues.…
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June 7, 2019
Dave WS1ETI gave a good presentation on SETI.
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June 3, 2019
I saw a post from the SPARC club about the American Victory looking for operators for Museum Ships weekend and quickly volunteered for it. I'd been wanted to check out the station on board since I saw the presentation they gave at the club last year. Amanda and I went over Saturday morning and…
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