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DXpeditioners have figured out they can turn on their automated FT8 computer scripts and make more money than actually operating their Ham Radios on Phone or CW
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Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Saturday , September 30, 2023 Busy morning QRP Image(s of the : Day These images were posted to the 14.060 MHz Facebook page by Fabio Binotto . This is a homebrew QRP SSB transceiver by Alexey Martyncov , U1YF . What craftsmanship If I had one one hundredth's percent of Alexey's talent , I'd be a happy man These images are a sight to behold Anyway , its a busy morning as Marianne and I will be leaving for Alexandria Bay later this afternoon . I've a few chores grocery shopping , get the oil changed , etc . to accomplish before we go so this will be . short I AM taking the KX3 with me and I hope to activate that park later this week . Hopes are just that hopes we'll see what actually happens However ,
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Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Friday , September 29, 2023 What's doing this weekend First , the QRP Image of the : Day Courtesy of Alberto Diaz from the SOTA Facebook page taken atop EA2 NV-009 simply beautiful If you're so inclined to get on the air this weekend here are some special : events Elmer Special Event W1E will be on the air in honor of all the Elmers who have assisted and guided us through the years https : www.qrz.com db W1E ELMER Peak to Peak Byway 105th Anniversary N0P K0P W0P will be on the air to celebrate the anniversary of Colorado's Peak to Peak Byway https : w0eno.org 105th-anniversary-peak-to-peak-byway 1st United Methodist Church Bi-Centennial Event KC9DJU will be on the air courtesy of the Madison County
: , , Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog HOME Study Guides Teach a One-Day Tech Class W8SRC Repeater Guide Advertise Hire Me Shop View Cart Amateur radio in the news : Eugene woman wants to bounce signals off the moon , Morse Code making a comeback with kids , can amateur radio help with climate change September 28, 2023 By Dan KB6NU Leave a Comment This is a great story that shows you don’t have to be a tech nerd to appreciate amateur radio Dan On The Air : An unlikely conversion puts a Eugene woman in touch with a new world I want to touch the . moon OK , not actually . Not a hand-print-in-moon-dust kind of touch . I want to use the moon to bounce a radio signal from me to someone in . Switzerland Up until a year
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Thursday , September 28, 2023 Faraday Cloth First , the QRP Image of the Day Courtesy of I5NOC on Facebook reminded me of the Four State QRP Group Bayou Jumper , of which I have one in the basement , needing to be built . Ahhhhh retirement can't come quickly enough So the latest rage amongst POTA activators and other portable ops QRPers , who use compact verticals , is to place a piece of aluminum window screen under the antenna , instead of laying out conventional radials . You still have to run a wire from the screen to the ground connection of the antenna system , but altogether this sounds like a convenient workaround compared to laying out radials . And from some testimonials that I have read on
Here is why I chose the Hermes Lite 2 (HL2) SDR ham radio transceiver as my main rig in the shack even if it is QRP.
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Wednesday , September 27, 2023 An investment First , the QRP Image of the Day Brought to you by Anton Petkov Lz1XM from Facebook who certainly has the right idea A cold 807 and QRP perfect together , and can't get much better than this Bob W3BBO recently brought to my attention two items that he saw on eBay . The first was an unbuilt , in-the-box Heathkit HW-9. The auction ended on Monday and the winning bidder was given the opportunity to shell out 723 for a kit that originally sold for 249. There is now a listing for a unbuilt HW-8 kit . It has a starting bid of 590 with a Buy It Now price of 995. Here's the description as it appears on : eBay Unbuilt , never unpacked , complete Heathkit HW-8 QRP
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Tuesday , September 26, 2023 POTA possibility First , the QRP Image of the : Day I found this image on Facebook , on the SOTA page . This is Rene Lutz HB9NBG sitting on top of an Alp I guess in Switzerland . You'll notice he's handholding a KX2 like it's an HT and he's making contacts on 40 Meters Wow THIS is SOTA I've been to Switzerland twice for business and actually was not too far from where Rene lives , which , according to QRZ , is near Basel . Basel is where Bron Elektronik is based , the makers of the studio strobes I used to repair , and factory training was my purpose for being there . I also had to visit the FOBA AG headquarters in Zurich makers of studio stands and studio equipment and
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Monday , September 25, 2023 QRP Image of the Day A new thing Posted to Facebook by OO7Z Nice photo 72 de Larry W2LJ QRP When you care to send the very least Posted by QRP When you care to send the very least at 2:09 PM Email This BlogThis Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Labels : QRP Image of the Day No : comments Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to : Post Comments Atom QRP Watering Holes Follow me on Facebook Follow this blog on Facebook and other QRP CW and Amateur Radio stuff https : www.facebook.com QRP-When-you-care-to-send-the-very-least-925805237575460 W2LJ By The Numbers ARRL Life Member , QRP ARCI 4488, QRP-L 13, NJQRP 47, FISTS 1469, Flying Pigs ARCIMy New Dell Computers. I liked the first one so much, I bought another! These have worked out great! https://amzn.to/3PzgAFX How do they sell them for
The post My New Dell Computers first appeared on N0UN.net.On the X6100 mailing list, someone at Radioddity posted this message: We are excited to share that we are exploring the possibility of introducing a portable HF antenna for our customers. In our research, we came across a highly portable antenna that caught our attention. We would love to hear your thoughts on it. Have […]
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, , Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Monday , September 25, 2023 Rain , rain , go away It was a rainy weekend , with Ophelia dropping 3.16 of rain on my QTH since late Friday evening . Although it wasn't a constant rainfall , it felt like it was because every time I had to leave the house , it was coming down . And when it rains like this , you tend to think that Gee , this has been a real rainy year That's the beauty of having a personal weather station and having a site like WeatherUnderground , where you can go to the almanac , and go back and see past days , weeks , months and . years This year , until now , we've received 35.67 inches of rain . September has been the rainiest , with 7.66 inches of rain so far , with about 5 days
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Saturday , September 23, 2023 Today was good HF day Amid all the usual busy-ness of a typical Saturday . I made time to get to the shack and turn on the radio . Maybe I have tropical storm Ophelia to thank for this as her visit eliminated the possibility of getting any yard work done I got on 30 Meters around 11:00 local time and at 15:32 UTC , while dial twiddling on 30 Meters , I happened to come upon a QSO in progress . One of the participants was NJ2BB , the Battleship New Jersey , which is about an hour's drive south of me , in Camden , . NJ It was an interesting conversation between the op on the battleship and a Navy veteran in Ohio who served on the Forrestal and the Wasp in the 50's . Anyway 
I love it when the ARRL takes my advice. Almost ten years ago, I pointed out that the club commission for new memberships ($15) and renewing memberships ($2) was just too low. They recently upped that to $15 for new memberships and $5 for renewals. On Thursday, the ARRL Learning Center hosted a talk by […]
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FT8 - THIS is the "new" Ham Radio DXer. No skill required. Set your computer, go to dinner, come back after dessert and claim your DXCC "Participation Trophy".
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Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Thursday , September 21, 2023 Interesting discussion on the Elecraft KX.io group on the Alex Loop antenna . An op was thinking of purchasing one , saw a review in the most recent issue of QST which I haven't read and wanted a consensus of thoughts and . opinions The comments were all about the same . Magnetic loop antennas , whether they be the Alex Loop , a Chameleon Loop , a homebrewed loop , or whatever- they all have a place . Just about everyone who responded said as much . For portable ops they can be great , for those stuck in an apartment or condo with no balcony , they can be a life saver and can be the difference between getting on the air or giving up the hobby altogether . I know a couplePages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Wednesday , September 20, 2023 Dead bands I saw on various e-mail reflectors and FB that we were on the receiving end of a Coronal Mass Ejection CME and that the bands were dead . Last evening as our side of the globe began to face away from the Sun , the bands seemed to be starting to come back to life . nbsp I was in the shack working on Skeeter Hunt certificates , and when I finished for the evening , I turned on the KX3 and twiddled the dial , looking for POTA stations to work . Signals on 20 Meters were way down . I found a couple activations thanks to the POTA spotting page , but I could barely hear them . 40 Meters was much better and I worked two , including Dave AB9CA 2nd Place winner in thisPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Tuesday , September 19, 2023 Autumnal Equinox Is this coming Saturday for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere . For those below the Equator , Winter is over and Spring is on the way . Hooray for you Unfortunately for me , I don't tolerate the loss of light and the colder temperatures all that well . The bright spot is , though , that band conditions on 80 and 160 Meters will be better in the evenings . I'm also heavily contemplating re-joining the QRP Fox Hunts this Winter . Season This hormone blockers that I'm still on last shot comes this December for prevention of a recurrence of the prostate cancer that I had last year still fatigues me quite a bit . Until just recently , it was not uncommonPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Monday , September 18, 2023 Speaking of Caveat Emptor I need to heed my own advice I finally got the chance to open and install that KX3 SideKX set that I purchased on eBay . I think I mentioned they were being sold by an SK's daughter , dispersing her father's Amateur Radio . gear I opened the package and the cover looked to be in mint condition . I'm pretty certain that if it was used , the original op's KX3 never really traveled much of . anywhere The side panels that were included were the original earless KX3 side panels The SideKX panels must still be on the . radio Oh , well I'm sure that to the op's daughter it was a matter of apples and oranges . Like the old Olympus camera commercial fromSkip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog HOME Study Guides Teach a One-Day Tech Class W8SRC Repeater Guide Advertise Hire Me Shop View Cart Is amateur radio technology too sophisticated September 17, 2023 By Dan KB6NU 8 Comments Back in April , a friend of mine sent me this excerpt from a NY Times Opinion piece that tries to explain why gun ownership has become such a big : thing I suspect that part of the reason for the rise of AR-15 fandom is the decline of other American hobby cultures : auto repair , darkroom photography , ham radio operation and the like . Automobiles have become hulking mobile computers that often can be repaired only by manufacturer-approved dealerships anyone with a smartphone can now take
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Sunday , September 17, 2023 Caveat Emptor Some guy on Facebook was complaining about the quality of . this First quick glance , you'd think it was a QRPGuys product , eh 1 The gent who made the post complained that he ordered a kit , but received it fully assembled . QRPGuys does not sell them fully assembled . He claims he knew this was a . knock-off 2 No Tune Eed Half Wave Seriously You know it's bad enough that you're selling counterfeit products , you've ripped off a design you can't , at the very least , get the spelling right And you can't sell them without taking the QRPGuys name off of them In this case , if you're the purchaser , you should have done a little more research , you got what you
: . Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog HOME Study Guides Teach a One-Day Tech Class W8SRC Repeater Guide Advertise Hire Me Shop View Cart A blast from the past : the Icom TriBand Delta . 1A September 16, 2023 By Dan KB6NU 1 Comment So , I’ve recently been going through some old magazines and cam across this advertisement . I forget what issue it came from , but RigPix says that it was manufactured in the early 1990s . Aside from being a bit chunkyâand probably pretty expensiveâthis looks like it could have been a great radio . And , just the thing to encourage more activity on 1.2 . GHz Anyone remember this radio How much did it cost Did it work well Click to see larger . image Related : posts Are Wouxoun RadiosPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Saturday , September 16, 2023 Yes yes it does Make sure to read Dan KB6NU's blog post https : www.kb6nu.com yes-learning-about-radio-does-matter He touches on a subject that always strikes a chord with me and is one of the reasons I really hate Ham Crams Yes , I know the goal is to get people licensed but at what cost I have assisted at several Ham Crams and the results from the exams have ranged from mediocre to . horrible When K2VHW and I have taught what I consider to be traditional licensing classes , they consisted of 8 weekly sessions . One weeknight for 8 weeks , for 2-3 hours per session with review and exam at the last session . Our passing rate has never dipped below 85 and I personally know
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Friday , September 15, 2023 Some Friday miscellania First an attempt at humor saw this on Facebook This made me laugh out loud and reminds me of home , because whenever I try to explain something regarding Amateur Radio that I'm excited about to Marianne or Joseph or Cara , I see that glazed , deer-in-the headlights kind of look forming in their eyes Hi A while ago , I requested re-made license plates from the State of New Jersey . From before I was born we had black letters on a kind of pale buttery cream-ish color background . That changed for the Bicentennial , when the state went to a Blue and Buff plate based on the colors that General Washington wore during The Revolutionary War . nbsp When theI received an email this morning from a reader who wrote: By way of background, I’ve been a ham for decades, operate all modes (but mostly CW), and do a lot of Parks on the Air (POTA). I also spend a lot of time recruiting people into the ham radio hobby and mentoring new hams. […]
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Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Thursday , September 14, 2023 2023 NJQRP Skeeter Hunt results are in And the Top Five : are First Place NK9G Second Place AB9CA Third Place N0SS Fourth Place W4MPS Fifth Place N5GW But truly , everyone who participated in the Hunt is a winner , in my book It's all the participants who get on the air that gives the NJQRP Skeeter Hunt its wings . For a complete look at who participated and how they fared , the whole Skeeter Hunt Scoreboard can be found : here https : docs.google.com spreadsheets d 1vFglC3CQiydnE0L6GE_iqboEW6rcTMrSrvWe80mlL7A edit gid=327174092 Some : housekeeping Next chore is to get the 2023 certificates out . As I stated previously , that due to the cost of ink , paper and postage ,
Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog HOME Study Guides Teach a One-Day Tech Class W8SRC Repeater Guide Advertise Hire Me Shop View Cart ICQ Podcast Episode 412 More Workshop Tips September 13, 2023 By Dan KB6NU Leave a Comment In this episode , I joined Martin Butler M1MRB , Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT , Edmund Spicer M0MNG and Ed Durrant DD5LP , and we discussed Polish Railways Fall Victim to Cheap Radio Attack This hack was so simple , it’s almost . unbelievable Programme Marks 56 Years of Helping Hams with Disabilities HandiHams has been helping challenged hams for a long time . It’s a great . program Retailer Radio Shack Making US Comeback See Is The Shack coming back here on . KB6NU.Com Park Activation MarksPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Wednesday , September 13, 2023 12V USB Boost Converter I saw this on a post to the POTA Facebook page by Mike Kelly . It seems he forgot to take a 12V power cable with him on one of his activations . He was using a tru SDX transceiver which can run off its USB port , so his day wasn't ruined , but he was limited to 0.75 Watts output . That my friends , is QRPp , and he was still able to make his 10 . contacts In turn , after hearing his story , a friend of his turned him on to this , available through : Amazon https : www.amazon.com gp product B09NSHWLV9 fbclid=IwAR0uXr6js6_FkSnHPFb6yD2V7Iw-oa2h3RcVMgiVGRGCU1ao80ixSqXSm7I th=1 This booster will allow you to power your 12V devices from the USB-A portPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Tuesday , September 12, 2023 Some things coming I wouldn't say I'm excited about a few things that I've got coming but I'm looking forward to their arrival . One is that 15 Ah battery that's coming from Sunny California . It's made it's way to Texas as of the last time I checked the tracking number . It should be here this week . I did not get a chance to get to Federal Metals on Saturday with the old batteries . That will happen this coming . weekend I also have a set of SideKx end plates and a cover coming for the shack KX3. I was horrified by how dusty and dirty it had become when I took that picture that I featured in last week's blog post . The lighting down in the basement isn't the brightest ,
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Monday , September 11, 2023 Another Day that will live in infamy Today's post is dedicated to all the First Responders in New York City , at the Pentagon and in Shanksville , Pennsylvania who chose to run TOWARD the danger on this day 22 years ago , while thousands were running the other way . We hold a special place and prayers in our hearts for the ones that went to work that day and did not make it home to their families . These brave men and women are true heroes in every sense of the . word We also remember and pray for all the victims , and their families and friends whose lives were forever changed that horrible day . As painful as it is , may we never . forget To those who survived that dayPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Sunday , September 10, 2023 If I hadn't been there I might not have believed it . On Friday , I mentioned in my post that we had a candidate for our monthly ETS of NJ VE Session that wanted to go from 0 to 100 MPH in one sitting . It turned out to be more like from 0 200 MPH in one sitting The Team arrived at 8:00 AM . The second candidate that had registered had informed me that he had taken an exam via an online session , so he had no need to come to ours . So the four of us sat back and were shooting the breeze when our guy showed up at about 8:45 . AM Just from his demeanor , he exuded a quiet confidence . He was courteous , pleasant and calm . He was well prepared , had all his materials ready: , , Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog HOME Study Guides Teach a One-Day Tech Class W8SRC Repeater Guide Advertise Hire Me Shop View Cart Amateur radio videos : A father and son get tickets , Slinky antenna , coiling cables September 9, 2023 By Dan KB6NU Leave a Comment A software engineer and his father , a broadcast engineer , get their tickets and make their first contact . Thanks to Steve , N8GNJ , of Zero Retries for a pointer to this . video When I first got back into ham radio , a friend of mine gave me a Slinky antenna . I used that antenna for quite a while , until it rusted Dan Learning how to coil cables properly can save you a lot of time when setting up a POTA or Field Day . antenna Related : postsPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Saturday , September 09, 2023 Battery City saga continues I'm going to be dropping off all my SLAs at a metals recycling facility in South Plainfield , either this weekend or next , depending on available time and the weather . I would like to do it tomorrow , but tomorrow is our monthly VE Session . We only have one candidate , but he's attempting a land speed record by trying to go from 0 to 100 MPH in one sitting . For those not getting my joke , he's going to attempt to go from unlicensed to Amateur Extra in one session . He seems to feel confident , God bless him . I hope he makes it , but God knows how long this is going to take . After that is the weekly grocery shopping trip and it's supposed. Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Friday , September 08, 2023 Tagging along for now . First off , let me reiterate something I think that all of you who read this blog already know first and foremost I'm an HF guy . That is my main source of activity in Amateur Radio . I love connecting with other parts of the world using RF energy , especially at QRP power levels . I've not been a big VHF UHF person . I do keep one in the car , of course , for nets and socializing with friends . The only other serious use I've made of VHF was when I used to utilize 2 Meters for the uplink to RS-10 11. The club to which I belong , the South Plainfield Amateur Radio Club , had a meeting the other night . I did not attend . The guest speaker from
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Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Thursday , September 07, 2023 Why didn't I think of this sooner This is one of the three ferrites which I rescued from the trash heap at one of my previous : jobs I am now assuming that the reason that they were on the trash heap in the first place is because the plastic clasps that locks these things closed were broken on two of them . nbsp But hey , nbsp that's nothing a little electrical tape can't cure I put all three on the coax going to the W3EDP just where the coax leaves my antenna switch . They are lined up , bumper-to- bumper , like their own little traffic . jam I had no idea if this was going to make a difference or not , but boy howdy Did it ever This is photo of the KX3 on an unoccupiedPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Wednesday , September 06, 2023 Noise on the W3EDP While I was on HF last weekend , I've really noticed how noisy and hashy the W3EDP has become . The HF9V is much quieter and it's easier to hear weaker signals . with When I was at a previous data center job , I noticed some clamp on ferrites that were being tossed in the trash . They were probably meant to be placed on server power cables , if necessary . In any event , I rescued them from oblivion and will try putting them on the W3EDP's coax to see if they make any difference . Sometimes you really can find treasure laying in the trash If not , I've been watching some YouTube videos on some products that Palomar Engineers sell for this expressPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Tuesday , September 05, 2023 CERT Day Yesterday was a CERT day . South Plainfield is only one of four communities n the State of New Jersey to host a Labor Day parade . The three Plainfields North Plainfield , Plainfield and South Plainfield split the summer up . One holds a Memorial Day parade , one holds a 4th of July parade and we do Labor . Day As a CERT member in town , we were tasked to help with pedestrian traffic control and safety for both events the parade and the fireworks display in the evening . The 5K race and parade in the morning were uneventful , unless you count the spotty shower at 10:30 AM which was actually a downpour . It ended rather quickly , but most of us got drenched and