February 22, 2019

QSL from Russia and St. Helena

Some new QSL cards came. I made the contact with R7MA and looked at his QRZ page, he has some impressive antennas and a cool card so I sent my QSL. I liked the stamps too, so I kept them. St Helena Island is here: There’s a couple hams on St Helena Island, this was my 2nd contact.

January 11, 2019

New QSL cards

E44WE sent a magnet with his card from Bethlehem, which is great because I like magnets. Also got a card from a DXpedition to Barbados. I’m seriously considering a vacation there and bringing my radio.

January 4, 2019

12 Days of Christmas Special Event – Clean Sweep

I like these special events where you have to contact a bunch of stations. I got all of them again, 2 on CW. Someday I might like to run one of these, I’m going to look into it. https://www.qrz.com/db/k2ryd

November 30, 2018

One year as a ham

A year ago today my original callsign(KX4HL) appeared in the FCC database after 9 long days of waiting.  It’s been quite a year, as of this morning I have 2411 QSOs. Here’s some of my QSO cards:   I’ve moved from just a wire antenna to a hex beam on the roof, put up a 2m antenna, built a AMSAT antenna.  I’ve done 11 Parks on the Air activations (and doing another today at K-1909 Oscar Sherrer State Park, look for me around 14.287).   I participated in winter and summer field day with the St Pete Amateur Radio Club (SPARC), there’s a meeting tonight also.  Been to 9 ham fests,…

November 30, 2018

Rwanda 9X0T QSL card

I received this QSL card today.  Also put in an order for more of my own cards.

September 20, 2018

Armed Services Cross band test 2018

I got my QSL card for the Armed Forces Day crossband test.  AAZ Ft Huachuca is where they guy I bought my IC-7410 from works.  This wasn’t a very difficult test, basically just use split mode.  It was fun to get a contact with the Pentagon and NSS, and also decoding the message in CW.

August 9, 2018

13 Colonies event QSL

I received the QSL from the 13 Colonies event.  “Clean Sweep” with the two extra stations.  This was a fun one.  This weekend I’m going on a road trip and bringing the radio.  I plan on doing some POTA activations so I’ll have some new content soon.

August 1, 2018

New QSL cards

I received a QSL card from a contact with NASA.  I also made a contact to Hawaii during the IARU HF contest.  Unfortunately this guy doesn’t used LOTW and Hawaii is the last one I need for Worked All States.  I’m going to look into getting it check in person but they way I read it, they don’t link in person cards to LOTW. This is a great card I got from Latvia.  Love the pic with the radio and dog.