@laf0rge@chaos.social2026-03-29 02:56:30
@laf0rge@chaos.social2026-03-29 02:56:30
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-03-28 18:13:40
Anyone want to be first QSO for a new #HamRadio Technician trying 10m POTA? QSY to 28.367 and take KR4KZA's CQ. 😁
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-03-27 23:34:24
DX Engineering maybe should turn off their "upcoming" feed for... certain times of year 🤣
#HamRadio
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-03-25 03:21:35
One more #HamRadio operator in the family as of this evening, just waiting for a call sign to be assigned. 🎉
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-02-17 03:28:36
Today's #HamRadio project was making elevated radials for an HF vertical. I have a 25' whip, a JPC-12, and some random parts I made. My idea is to have more efficient elevated radials, but unlike ground-coupled radials, elevated radials need to be tuned.
I thought this would take me 1–2 hours.
It took about 5 hours.
When you have ground-coupled radials, you have only o…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-03-15 02:35:14
This morning was my first experience of teaching a #HamRadio study course to prepare prospective hams to take the Technician test. Unlike @…, we don't fit it into one day; we are doing three successive Saturdays, with testi…
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-03-15 00:03:11
While Rob Sherwood is unlike to test the QRP-Labs QMX as far as I know, #HamRadio
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-03-10 00:25:57
Today I learned about #HamRadio
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2026-02-04 21:30:46
I've seen so many excited (or annoyed) notices about the changes to the 60m #HamRadio band in the US. Many of them seemed to think that they were in effect already (wrong) and those that didn't make that mistake would just say "soon" (not helpful).
It turns out that 13 February 2026 is the day that you can use the additional band allocation on you…