June 30, 2021
I received my CWOPs CWT Bronze Participation Medal. Even though it's a participation medal it's not easy to get. It is award for completing at least 10 contacts each in at least 60 weekly CWT morse code contests in the year. There's 3 hour long sessions every Wednesday. I'm going for Gold this…
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June 28, 2021
We had our 3-club joint field day this year at the Clearwater Fire Training Facility. We ran 3 stations plus a 6meter FT8 station. We setup 5 antennas including my hexbeam that I used to have on the roof of my old house. The hexbeam went together real easy and worked amazing. We have a triplexer so…
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June 14, 2021
Super casual effort on 6m FT8 for the ARRL June VHF Contest, made 27 contacts with quite a few being with people in the club. Map of where my 6m signal was getting heard.
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June 10, 2021
I never had much interest in DMR but my friend sent me an Amazon link for a DMR radio for $20 so I couldn't resist. It's $40 now though, not sure it's worth that much. The brand is "Cotre", it's chinese, there's no manual and it doesn't have a display. jhart99 has done a good job of documenting…
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