Archives: 2019
September 2, 2019
I was in Colorado on vacation so I drove past the WWV) site outside Fort Collins to check out the antennas. Wikipedia has more info about it.) You can't get very close because it's a secure facility but I got some shots from the fence: View from the road
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August 26, 2019
I arrived early on a business trip to Houston so I decided to try out the KX2 at a park in Galveston since I've never been out that way. I had trouble with transmitting. I brought my Antenna analyzer and was getting a decent SWR on that but the radio was showing an infinite SWR. It was extremely…
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August 26, 2019
I've been traveling a bit and haven't had much to report in the radio dept. I brought my radio on my last trip expecting the AirBnB to be on the top floor but it turned out to be on the 2nd floor and surrounded by buildings so I didn't even bother trying to setup the KX2. When I returned I had a…
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August 10, 2019
I've been looking for something more portable for taking with me when I travel and settled on the Elecraft KX2. I looked at the KX3 as well but its a little bigger and not much more powerful, and I already have the FT-891 at 100 watts so I went with the smaller one. KX2 is a 10W QRP radio. I tested…
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July 29, 2019
The ISS is sending out an SSTV signal again and I just picked up a brand new unopened Arrow Antenna off QRZ for $100 so I tried it out. There were two passes today but both around 20 degrees so I didn't get a great signal but I was still able to sort of make out the images. They're doing more later…
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July 21, 2019
I teamed up with Rich AA2MF and Tom W4CU from SPARC and FCG for the North American QSO Party RTTY July contest. Our team name was THREE-FIFTHS, since we couldn't find the 2 others to fill out the team. Turns out those missing two were smart, Rich emailed after the contest and said it was the worst,…
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July 15, 2019
During the IARU HF Championship I made my 5,000th contact, it was a CW contact with IB9A in Silicy. I'm going to send him a card.
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July 15, 2019
This past weekend was IARU HF Championship. This is a mixed mode contest (CW & SSB) where you try to contact all the different countries radio associations. Lots of them have special callsigns ending in HQ. I ended up with 300 contacts over 15.5 of the 24 hours of the contest. I was pretty beat at…
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July 9, 2019
Besides the GB13COL I had a pretty easy time with this event this year. I got into it right at is was starting and got a few stations. I struggled to hear K2Z but finally had a clear signal from him on the sixth. I got a few of them on CW which was easy. GB13COL was a mess though. When I could hear…
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July 4, 2019
I joined the Florida Contest Group (FCG) and also subscribed to the National Contest Journal magazine. In the latest issue they have an article about how they won't be printing the entire contest results in the magazine anymore yet my callsign still made it to print for the February RTTY contest.…
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