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Today's 20m #HamRadio #POTA activation of US-3844 Jordan Lake State Recreational Area. The first 10 QSOs (conversations) were 2-operator on SSB with my wife doing her first-ever activation, then once she successfully activated and called it quits, I went on to hunt another 10 park-to-p…

For running my #HamRadio portable setup from solar power, I made a power distribution box. I didn't know where to stop, apparently, and now I have a beast that weighs 1.2kg. It has two isolated battery busses, each of which has an XT60M, PowerPole, and 5.5x2.1mm barrel connector to choose from, supporting the batteries I have and that friends might have. It has four other circuits that …

FCC: "You need to do an RF exposure calculation for your barefoot 100W #HamRadio rig"
Urban climber: "Hold my beer"
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In my #HamRadio #POTA adventure today, I got my inverted-V linked dipole caught in twigs today and it died. The silicon wire winds easily around a tight radius, which is nice for putting it on the winder, but also winds around twigs easily, and that fine wire breaks easily. Easier than…

Today's #HamRadio adventures... My oldest and I went to do #POTA together. He's a technician, and 10m was mostly dead where we were, except for a booming SSB QSO with California to a club doing the CA QSO party, so he didn't get his 10 today.
I started running CW QRP (5W) on on 1…

I decided to try to participate just a little in this weekend's #HamRadio ARRL sweepstakes CW contest to stretch my tyro skills. In a busy contest, I decided to set up not1mm and configure my radio for sending from a contest logger to try to reduce wasting time with nervous keying failures. Took three really broken exchanges (the first ones hand-sent) that made me feel bad for the other…

Today's #HamRadio #POTA (Parks On The Air) adventure. Absolutely gorgeous, couldn't-be-better fall weather on a Saturday, so that it was a little surprising that we found parking space and that all the picnic tables were empty. Used my spiderbeam push-up mast to hold my inverted-v link…

Today's #HamRadio #POTA CW activation of US-3847 Occoneechee Mountain Natural State Conservation Area (four hunting park-to-park QSOs, six running calling CQ) along with tonight's SST together made a milestone for me: Now 75% of all my logged QSOs are Morse code.
I still marvel t…

I have #HamRadio single-paddle #Morse key.
I added optional stabilizer bars for which I recommend 3mm stainless rod…

There are plenty of #HamRadio CW operators who, as a politeness, greet you by name when you have a QSO, even a POTA QSO. But they also see "Michael" and send "Mike" because "Michael" takes a long time to send.
I get it, "Mike" is shorter, but... I just don't go by "Mike"
I do go by "MKJ" — I used that for decades on IRC, and now at work there are so many Mi…

This is the third full build iteration of my miniature #QRP unun supporting both EFHW and "random wire" antennas. At this point, it is still fiddly to build, but I'd expect an experienced #HamRadio DIY / homebrew enthusiast to find the build not terribly difficult.
There's nothing…

One of my many simultaneous ongoing #HamRadio projects are a set of bandpass filters. I forgot until now that my uSimmics work with various filters counts as @…

Today's 5W QRP #HamRadio #POTA activation of US-4857 Jordan Lake Educational State Forest was fun radio therapy. Successful QSOs on 30 meters, 20 meters, and 17 meters. Ironically, I set up a 40m end-fed half-wave antenna, and then only one of the 10 QSOs was on a resonant ban…

DX Engineering invited John Robert Stratton N5AUS, ARRL West Gulf Director, to give more details about why this new attempt to give #HamRadio similar rights already given for broadcast antennas (the FCC's Over-the-Air Reception Devices, or "OTARD", rule) has a real chance to pass this time.
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This afternoon's 10–15W SSB #POTA #HamRadio activation. Three QSOs on 15m including Dominican Republic. Then when I needed just one more QSO to successfully activate US-4857 for my first time, I got Germany with a 33 signal report on 15W. ❤️ Most of the QSOs were on only 10W.

In order to 3d print a little amplified speaker box to use for #HamRadio SSB 2-operator POTA with my wife, I want to model components and then model the box to go around them. I found a speaker on grabcad that is only a few mm different from the speaker I found in my bin. Just different enough …

Today I went to Swift Creek Bluffs State Nature Preserve, just a few miles from my house, and stumped up to the ridge for some #POTA #HamRadio therapy. Tossed a 40m EFHW into the twigs and a 13' counterpoise wire over a branch of a nearby sapling, connected to my tiny QRP unun, and hoo…

Today's SYP (Support Your Parks) #HamRadio #POTA #QRP CW adventure had limited time, so I wasn't sure I'd actually stay for 10 QSOs. But then I discovered that park

New #HamRadio country for me tonight! Thanks @… for taking my call! It was kind of noisy this side of the pond, but still better than the US west coast from my QTH right now.
Got a successful activation today for the …

If you are a US citizen holding a #HamRadio license, please add your name to #AmateurRadio antennas with bills in both the house and senate,…

@… #HC43S I've published several 3D printable designs for #HamRadio, all designed with

The ARRL has a long online text band plan which they have condensed for HF into The Considerate Operator's Frequency Guide which is not really in a convenient form to print and carry with you into the field when operating portable