The past several months have been months where I felt I was burned out on the hobby. Got my new car at the end of July and I haven’t installed the 2 meter/440 rig in yet. Mainly I haven’t decided how I want to install it in the car, but part of me was enjoying [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Contesting’
June 26, 2009
Field Day 2009
Today has been a very long day. In 94+ degree heat we managed to get four of our antennas for Field Day up. A 160 Windom, an 80 Windom, a 40 M dipole and a fan dipole.
Tomorrow we will work on getting our 3 element beam up, a 40 M vertical and two 6M beams [...]
June 25, 2009
Field Day
Will be operating Field Day with Chesapeake Amateur Radio (W4CAR.ORG) at Deep Creek Locks Park. Hope to meet some of you folks on the air!
I will be twittering during field day under @W4CAR. I will also be checking out @KG4ZXK on there from time to time. I hope to get a lot of radio time [...]
April 5, 2009
My serial/USB adapter saga…
Seems like all I do is have saga’s here isn’t it?
I operate a Kenwood TS-850S transceiver with auto tuner and the one thing I’ve been wanting to do was have computer control of my radio and to have that data updated automatically into my logs.
I use N3FJP’s ACLOG and all his contest software. [...]
January 14, 2009
DX News — ARRL DX Bulletin #1:
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DX Bulletin 1 ARLD001
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington CT January 8, 2009
To all radio amateurs
SB DX ARL ARLD001
ARLD001 DX news
This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, The Weekly DX, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar [...]
