Archives: 2026
September 4, 2026
I attended a presentation by Bill Brown WB8ELK on Pico Balloons at Hamvention 2022 in Dayton. After returning home I ordered all the electronics you need for the tracker but never got around to ordering the balloons. A few months ago I found that there was a cheaper balloon from Amazon you could…
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August 27, 2026
Setup at a campstie I stayed at during a road trip in Delaware State Forest, which is in Eastern Pennsylvania. Used the Wolf River Coil antenna with the FT-891. Started out on CW and wasn't getting a signal in the beacon network. After fiddling with the antenna I started getting spots and made…
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August 10, 2026
Received my QSL card from J51A off the coast of Africa. This was a really well run DXpedition. Challenging but not impossible and they knew how to run multichannel FT8. The opposite of another DX during the same timeframe. I got 10 Q's with them including 80m.
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August 9, 2026
New website is live. I'm going to strive to update it more often though I doubt I'll ever beat the 78 posts I did in 2019. The old website ran on Wordpress and I saw there was a pretty severe vulnerability on that. I had it updated so it wasn't effecting me. I don't really use the features of…
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February 17, 2026
Received the ARRL DX Trident award in the mail. This is for getting 100 confirmed DX entities on Phone, CW and Digital.
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February 13, 2026
Skipped Hamcation this year and just went to the contest dinner on the way to my folk's place. Dave KM3T gave the speech. Amanda won a $100 DX Engingeering gift certificate. Sat at a table with some WRTC competitors so that was fun.
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