Archives: 2020
February 13, 2020
I've been setting more and more challenging goals for my Get On The Air goals for my CW Academy Intermediate class I'm taking. This weeks goals is to do some POTA activations using CW. I made 4 contacts with CW on this activation. I was going for 10 but I stopped getting responses to my CQ's so I…
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February 9, 2020
This was my 3rd Hamcation and the most crowded one. Took almost 30 minutes just to get into the parking lot. Car line to get into Hamcation I went to the contest forum first. There were 4 presentations, first about DXpedition for the CQ WW CW contest from 3B8M, then one about doing QSO parties…
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February 9, 2020
The club tower was bent badly during a storm that came through on Thursday night which had a tornado. The club weather station clocked the wind at 65mph. https://www.sparc-club.org/sparc-tower-damage-from-pinellas-park-tornado/ It's bent at the first extension so we can't lower it. We're working on…
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February 5, 2020
I received a nice package from DL0ESA, the European Space Agency, for a contact way back in April 2018. I remember I was pretty happy to get this contact as they had a huge pile up going. They also sent some bookmarks and stickers which was nice. I also received a card from TX7T, the DXpedition to…
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January 28, 2020
Once again we had Winter Field Day at the Clearwater Fire Training Facility. It's a great location and they give us the run of the training areas. We setup a beam, a rotating dipole, 2 slopers and an off center fed dipole. We ended up with over 1200 contacts and covered every US section. It was a…
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January 12, 2020
I've started the CW Academy intermediate class and my advisors have asked us to set weekly goals and then report on them. For my first week I set a goal of 50 QSO's in the NAQP CW contest. I was able to get 79 QSOs. I found that I'm getting pretty good at copying callsigns, even the fast ones. I'm…
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