November 20, 2022
Stopped for some POTA today. Had a good pileup going on CW and someone kept sending "ID" and I was like why does this guy want me to treat Idaho special. Then I thought maybe that was part of his callsign so I sent it back to him. Then I finally realized I hadn't sent my call in awhile so I sent…
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November 19, 2022
DX 13 Colonies event, got the Clean Sweep and All CW endorsements but missed GB13COL again, they need some work on their CW on that station. First time getting an eyeball QSL card in the mail. This from the MVARA bus I checked out in Dayton this year.
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October 16, 2022
Went to the 2nd Annual Manatee Amateur Radio Club MARCIfest in Bradenton over the weekend. This was a small hamfest with a few vendors. I saw a few SPARC members there. Pretty easy to get to just south on the highway about 20 mins.
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October 7, 2022
Received the certificate for making contacts from the American Victory Ship in Tampa Bay, W4AVM back in June. Forgot to post photos when I went there. Here's some: Cruise ship was boarding next to it, lots of people Tug going by W4AVM
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September 10, 2022
SPARC members took a field trip down to the WRMI commercial station near Okeechobee in Florida. This station runs 15 transmitters at 100k watts each for 1.5 million watts of RF power! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o9eXOCnMwo Road in Panoramic view
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August 7, 2022
Put in a minimal effort in the NAQP CW contest. Got two contact on 10m from Hawaii though which is a new one for me I believe. My ADIF mapper is broken so I used a different one: NAQP CW August 2022 QSOs
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July 31, 2022
Saw that there was a Feld Hell sprint contest this weekend and I never worked that mode before so I tried it out. It sends a fax style signal with the font embedded in the waveform. I only made one contact and it was a little cumbersome as I'm not familiar with the QSO flow exactly. I feel like it…
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July 12, 2022
Had a slow start but then things started to pick up in the afternoon. Ended up with 332 CW contacts from S&P. 15m worked well for a lot of the time. This is one of my favorite ones due to the easy exchange of the ITU zone. There's only a couple tricky ones, US and Brazil are commonly heard…
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June 26, 2022
This year we hosted the summer Field Day at the SPARC club station. After a discussion with the members we decide to be a "D" Class station rather than "A" to make it easier since it was the first time we've done it as a single club in awhile. "A" stations use generator power and temporary…
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May 31, 2022
Put in a solid 3 hours on this with search and pounce since I had some other events to go to.
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