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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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January 1, 2025
Another very slow year for blog posts, I'll try to do better in 2025. I did write two articles for the resurrected SPARC Gap club newsletter, we were finally able to get a volunteer and he eventually became the club secretary. I did complete one of last years goals and one from 2022, using the…
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December 31, 2023
This was a much lighter year for blog posts, things have become traditional, went to the Florida Contest Group Contest dinner in Orlando for Hamcation, I won a HT Heil headset. I got 1st place in WCF for the RTTY Roundup somehow, I've done much better other years and not gotten first. I did…
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December 31, 2021
Overall a pretty slow year for ham radio for me. There weren't many DXpeditions, I enjoy chasing them. I did complete my DXCC for CW so now I have all 3. I also completed the Worked All States Triple Play. I made 10 or more contacts in 132 Wednesday CWT mini contests, which will earn me a Gold…
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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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November 19, 2019
When I get into hobbies I tend to go all in right away. With ham radio I found that strategy to be a little financially irresponsible. The Icom IC-7300 had just come out when I started and spending over grand on just one piece for the new hobby didn't sit well with me so I found a deal on the Icom…
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July 29, 2019
The ISS is sending out an SSTV signal again and I just picked up a brand new unopened Arrow Antenna off QRZ for $100 so I tried it out. There were two passes today but both around 20 degrees so I didn't get a great signal but I was still able to sort of make out the images. They're doing more later…
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July 15, 2019
During the IARU HF Championship I made my 5,000th contact, it was a CW contact with IB9A in Silicy. I'm going to send him a card.
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February 8, 2019
I've been following @SWRadiogram on twitter and was around to listen into on 7.780MHz this afternoon. Here's what I decoded: Before RSID: > Q= oex¬/sib eÏinzeÜo ee in9ti¾hm et Welcome to program 86 of Shortwave Radiogram. I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia USA. Here is the lineup for…
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January 23, 2019
I saw a post on reddit about WEFAX so I looked into it. National Weather Service broadcasts weather related WEFAX images and text in various different HF frequencies from different stations around the world, pretty much constantly. Using fldigi, I was able to decode the signal from Boston and New…
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