Archives: 2022
April 22, 2022
I took the day off to get a IEEE tour of the Manatee Solar Battery, the world's (currently) largest solar powered battery. Solar battery, photo from the middle, it goes on just as far in the other direction, and there's two rows like this. These are the inverters. On my way home I stopped to…
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April 3, 2022
This year again I activated parks for the Florida State Parks on the Air event with Corey NF4Q. Corey registered the SES callsign W4E again which really does make it special. We did Terra Ceia State Park K-3663 again and Little Manatee River State Park K-1898. On Saturday at K-3663 we had very…
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February 21, 2022
Put in about 8 hours on the ARRL DX CW contest this weekend for 212 contacts. This is my 2nd favorite after the CQ WW CW. Tons of people on the air, the rarer stations all had thick pile ups, I didn't get through to Kenya or Morocco. The pile ups didn't make a lot of sense, there would be 20 people…
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February 19, 2022
SPARC Meetup at Hamcation 2022 FCG Contest Dinner FCG Contest Dinner speaker Ed N4OC
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February 4, 2022
Solar ham radio bike w/Starlink https://youtu.be/Ow89u\qqNxk
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January 30, 2022
Hex beam Winter Field Day at the Clearwater Fire Training facility with SPARC, UPARC and CARS.
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January 15, 2022
Drove up to the Florida POTA meetup at Colt Creek State Park K-1848 which is also inside Green Swamp Conservation Area K-5330 so it counts for 2 parks. Right when I got there a few people were making UHF/VHF contacts with each other that count for park-to-park, so I got 42 park-to-park contacts in…
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January 10, 2022
I normally get a lot more contacts in the RTTY Roundup but I couldn't get a run started at all. I'd call CQ for 10 minutes and get nobody. Search and pounce worked fine though so it wasn't a signal problem. It was super nice out so I smoked a nice cigar while operating from the garden hammock. Map…
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