Archives: 2019
April 19, 2019
One really annoying bird kept me up late and woke me early so I made a nice breakfast and went to my first spot about 40 miles through the forest. This place is called Tate's Hell State Forest K-4640. Apparently Tate got lost out there long ago. He said it was like Hell when he got back and the…
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April 19, 2019
After Day 1, I recalculated my plan and decided to do 5 of the 9 parks I had planned. This would get me a 5 parks in one day RaDAR award. I started out at K-1865 Fanning Springs Sate Park's picnic area on the river. I operated FT8 from the car here. It was a nice spot to start the days activations.…
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April 19, 2019
I'd been planning some time off for a POTA adventure for awhile and this was the week. I spent some time planning a route up the west coast of Florida and into the panhandle. I considered going all the way out to Pensacola but I decided to save that for another time as it's about a 8 hour drive…
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April 13, 2019
There was a lot involved in getting this working so I thought I would write a post about getting the Yaesu FT-891 to work digital modes (FT8 in this case) with a new Mac the only has USB-C ports. There are probably other ways to do it but I think what I am describing will be the lowest cost route.…
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April 9, 2019
This year again we went out to Egmont Key State Park on the ferry from Fort Desoto Park for the FLSPOTA event. Band conditions were not great and we had difficulty making contacts but it was a really nice day to be out on this beautiful island. This year we had the special event callsignW4E. Corey…
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April 6, 2019
The results of the ARRL Sweepstakes 2018 came out and I got first place in the Single Operator Unlimited Low Power category for the West Central Florida Section.
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April 6, 2019
At this months SPARC Club meeting they showed the plaque for the club winning the Florida QSO Party contest in the Florida club category. This was before I changed callsigns and I was KX4HL. I'm still waiting for the full results to come out to see how I did in the individual category as I worked…
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March 6, 2019
Made some good DX today. 2 contacts with Galapagos Islands DXpedition(HD8M) on 17m and 20m, two different stations in Antarctica (RI1ANL and EM1UA) and then Mauritania in Africa (5T5PA). These were all FT8. I'd worked Mauritania via SSB, the other two are all time new ones for me.
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March 4, 2019
Activated Lake Manatee State Park today. I had driven past this one coming from Beker-Wingate State Park K-3607 and had it on my list. My girlfriend, Amanda, likes to find geocache's while I'm doing the radio and it looked like there were a lot of them at Lake Manatee when I looked back then.…
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March 2, 2019
Tonight, I showed my GPS Clock that I built, at the SPARC Club meeting homebrew night. I had been wanting a clock to show UTC time in my shack. When I went on Amazon, clocks are $20, looking around my workbench I figured I could just build a clock. I had a couple GPS receivers from a project I had…
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