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Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Friday , August 30, 2024 Weekend doings First an old image for QRP Image of the Day of me I found this in the SPARC Facebook page from way back in April of 2015 almost 10 years ago I went up to Washington Rock State Park for QRP to the Field before POTA was even an idea in anyone's mind The photo was taken by Drew W2OU SK when he and Marv K2VHW came for a . visit Coming up this long Labor Day holiday : weekend Contests Colorado QSO Party http : ppraa.org coqp Tennessee QSO Party https : tnqp.org rules MI QRP Labor Day CW Sprint https : www.miqrp.net contest-challenge ARS Spartan Sprint http : ars-qrp.com Spartan_Sprint Spartan_Sprint.html Special Event Stations 08 01 2024 San Max Celebration Aug 1-Aug
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Thursday , August 29, 2024 Sad Hams Oh , I hate that term But it's become prevalent among certain Hams who get annoyed and exasperated with certain older Hams . I guess it's better than the previously used term Old Fart It's the typical generational thing . The newer Hams don't understand the older Hams and the older Hams don't understand the newer Hams . It's like when you were a kid and you got tired of hearing from your parents or grandparents , When I was your age , I had to walk to school 5 miles in the snow up hill both ways The fact is that if you were licensed before 1980, you had no resource but to study the license manuals that were available at the time . You read and learned the theory and
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Wednesday , August 28, 2024 I've got to put some more effort into the AX1 After reading Craig WB3GCK's blog post and reading comments from Brian KB9BVN on Facebook and his blog I've decided I've got to spend more time getting used to I was going to say playing around with my Elecraft AX1 . antenna My results with it so far , the few times I've used it , have been 50 50. Sometimes it seems to work great , and other times I just end up with a whole bag of . frustration Tom K4SWL had a great blog post and video of using the AX1 with the Emtech ZM-2 tuner . I'll have to give that a shot . I don't know I mentioned to Craig that I seem to have an innate wire the higher , the better antenna bias . I think
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Tuesday , August 27, 2024 Haven't done this in a while QRP Image of the Day , by Hans Terlouw PA1ALV : as found on the POTA page in : Facebook This is a very personal opinion , and I know a lot of people would disagree , but to me this is the heart and soul of POTA . Going out to a park with equipment that you can carry in a small case or backpack , setting up and operating and having fun . In no way am I knocking those who go out with very elaborate setups and with 100 Watt rigs or higher if that's your thing , then by all means , keep on doing what you're doing . Whatever gives you . joy In that vein , I started populating my LowePro backpack last night . So far , I have the QMX , two battery packs
One of the things that makes Parks on the Air (POTA) so successful is the way that they use their database to keep folks involved. It’s very easy for activators to upload their logs, and once uploaded, the website takes it from there, generating myriad awards for participants. There are awards for all kinds of […]
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Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Monday , August 26, 2024 Older things repurposed When I got my KX3 so many moons ago , I needed something to store it in for taking it along on portable ops . At the time TJ W0EA had posted a YouTube video extolling the virtues of the LowePro 150 Traveler camera backpack . From the beginning it worked very well , but I soon accumulated enough stuff to outgrow its usefulness . Thus , it sat languishing in my computer room . It was too good to dispose , but I also had no use for it until now This bag backpack will be the prefect solution to carry the QMX , two battery packs and their charger , the Emtech ZM-2 tuner , a couple of coax jumpers , a set of earbuds , a paddle and the KM4CFT EFRW and a 25'Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Sunday , August 25, 2024 It is alive The little QMX is alive I hooked it up to the W3EDP yesterday I did not switch out antennas like I planned kinda long story that I won't go into here through both my Emtech ZM-2 Z-match tuner and my 4 States QRP Tuner and I worked five POTA . activations K9DXA Harry , who hasn't competed in the Skeeter Hunt in a few years , he used to be a . regular WT2P N3T K9RDO WG8X a two-fer It was pretty easy to get into the habit of using a manual tuner again . The only thing I had to look up was the In Out switch on the 4 States tuner . Last time I used it was with my HW-8 and I forgot that In meant tune and Out meant operate . Common sense , really , but at the moment I
, Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Saturday , August 24, 2024 Jerry N9AW , Silent Key N9AW Jerry Scherkenbach an avid QRP’er passed away August 22,2024. Jerry since the 80’s has been active in QRP contesting and operating events . He was also active in the QRP Foxhunts as a FOX and a Hound He has served on the Fox Hunts Committee for a few years . nbsp Jerry was a member of the Greater Milwaukee DX Association , W K Amateur Radio Club of Greater Milwaukee , QRP Cheeseheads A.R.C . He was cofounder of the W K Amateur Radio Club and the QRP Cheeseheads Amateur Radio Club . Jerry will be remembered for being a kind and soft spoken gentleman and a mentor for so many hams from all walks of life . He traveled to St . Lucia withe Buddipole
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Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Saturday , August 24, 2024 Clueless So Yaesu introduced a new radio at the Tokyo Ham : Fair It is the FTX-1, an all mode HF , 6M , 2M , 70cm radio with an output of 10 Watts . Just what fans of the Yaesu FT-817 have been anxiously waiting for right It will be available for purchasing early in 2025. It is probably Yaesu's hope to knock ICOM's IC-705 off the top seller pedestal . I'll not go into the details on the specs of the radio as certainly you'll be able to not help but see them in the coming days and . weeks But to my post title Clueless Is Yaesu clueless Certainly not But as a QRP'er , I have to belly laugh at some of the reactions from Hams who either don't know any better , or worse lack anyPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Friday , August 23, 2024 Weekend happenings For those of you who are going to get on the air and ask , What contest is THIS Contests Hawaii QSO Party http : www.hawaiiqsoparty.org ALARA Contest http : www.alara.org.au contests World Wide Digi DX Contest https : ww-digi.com I'm sure this one won't come down into the CW portions at all U.S . Islands QSO Party http : usislands.org qso-party-rules YO DX HF Contest http : www.yodx.ro Kansas QSO Party https : ksqsoparty.org rules KSQPRules2024.pdf 1 Ohio QSO Party http : www.ohqp.org index.php rules SARL HF CW Contest http : www.sarl.org.za public contests contestrules.asp FISTS Ladder Operating Activity https : www.fists.co.uk activitiescalendar.htmlPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Thursday , August 22, 2024 Last night I spent some more time with Skeeter Hunt results , and then it occurred to me . Instead of sending acknowledgements as I post results to the Scoreboard spreadsheet one by one , I should go through all the e-mails NOW and send acknowledgements . This takes the guess work out of the equation for the Skeeters . So now I can truly say , if you didn't get an acknowledging e-mail from me , I didn't get your log . summary Thirteen years of doing this , you would have thought this would have occurred to me sooner Some times I can be so perceptive and on top of things and other times I can be as thick as a brick Sometimes I get so used to doing what I've been doing that IPages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Wednesday , August 21, 2024 Skeeter Hunt Results Just a word about Skeeter Hunt log . summaries I did receive about 90 on Sunday and more Monday and Tuesday . I am working on transferring data to my Scoreboard spreadsheet a different spreadsheet from the roster which you can all still see as quickly as I can . I do send out confirmation e-mails to all of you who have submitted summaries . I'm sure a lot of you have gotten that e-mail from me , . already I plan to be all caught up with this by the weekend . So if you've submitted a log and are wondering why you haven't heard from me I'm working on it . This event started off very small in 2012. It has grown by leaps and bounds since then and I could
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Tuesday , August 20, 2024 A couple of thoughts post Skeeter Hunt . Here's a map of my QSOs , courtesy of K2DSL's mapping . site Nothing to write home about , no Herculean effort , but fun just the same and really , that is what the Skeeter Hunt is all about . As someone much wiser than me has said , The fun is in the journey , not the destination . I was starting to process summary results last night . I only got about a dozen done as I had several other things on the agenda last night . What struck me though , is I'm already almost to the point of receiving the same amount of summaries from non-Skeeter numbered ops as last year . If this trend continues , it may well surpass that . That tells me that
I attended DEF CON 32 a week or so ago, and like many “hacker” conferences, attendees got an electronic badge. This year’s badge was built around the new Raspberry PI microcontroller, the RP2350. It actually works like a GameBoy, and you can add games like you would a GameBoy. Here are a couple of videos […]
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Monday , August 19, 2024 Put er in the books What a surprise I woke up to a Sunday morning miracle The weather prognosticators were off by a bit . It was sunny and very humid , and a quick gander on the weather radar showed no signs of imminent storms , so it looked like a portable Skeeter Hunt operation was going to be a distinct . possibility Over the next few hours , the sun and clouds would alternate , so I decided to 86 going to Cotton Street Park and would work backyard portable instead . I figured that if it did start to downpour , I wouldn't get that drenched moving equipment into the house from the backyard , and I could move it quickly , if needed . I started setting up at Noon a whole
Here are three interesting things I found on mastodon last night. If you’re a mastodon user, you can follow me at @kb6nu@mastodon.radio. If you primarily post about #hamradio, I’ll follow you back. Electronics at Work: 1943 In 1943, electronics was all about vacuum tubes. This video is a good introduction to how vacuum tubes work […], Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Saturday , August 17, 2024 Saturday , and the weather's turning lousy I'm not absolutely sure what tomorrow is going to bring , except that I'm pretty certain there will be no park operating for me tomorrow . Weatherbug is calling for a 45 chance of showers tomorrow . If it's dry around Noon time , I just might set up the Jackite and EFRW in the backyard . If it's raining , I'll operate from the shack , and will swallow the better multiplier you get for operating portable . nbsp Today the bands weren't absolute crud . They weren't great either , but I did manage to put 10 POTA stations in the log . All but one were on 20 Meters . After I worked one activation on 40 Meters , I tuned around a bit and
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Friday , August 16, 2024 This Sunday is the NJQRP Skeeter Hunt For all the details . please go to https : www.qsl.net w2lj Skeeter numbers will be handed out right up until Midnight Saturday Sunday EDT . After that , the roster is closed . Thanks to all of you who have signed up so far . As of this morning , as I type this , we have 209 Skeeters waiting to take . wing W2LJ will most likely be working from the shack this year . The weather outlook for Sunday in NJ is still terrible . Rain showers all day with possible thunderstorms in the afternoon . I was going to set up in the backyard , but unless a weather miracle occurs , that's not going to happen . I do enough stuff that merits God hitting me
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Thursday , August 15, 2024 One of the things I wish I had was the skill to homebrew stuff . And by stuff I mean circuits , receivers , transmitters , accessories and the like . Oh , I can build kits all right although as I age , my eyes aren't quite what they used to be , and SMD components can send shivers up and down my spine when they are microscopic . I can look at a schematic and make repairs . Heck , I did that for 22 years for a living . But to look at a schematic , and take a bunch of components and build a working whatever I'm out of my . league I look at the creations of Dave AA7EE or Bob W3BBO and I just wistfully whistle to myself . To have the prowess and ability to build a receiver or
. Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Wednesday , August 14, 2024 St . Maximillain Kolbe Amateur Radio Operator Today , August 14th , in the Catholic Church , is the Feast Day of St . Maximillian Kolbe , who was martyred this day in 1941 He died in the Nazi concertation camp at Auschwitz . As the story goes , there was a successful prion break from the camp . In response , the Kommandant ordered that 10 men be executed as an example of what would happen to those who might attempt any further prison breaks One of the 10 selected men begged that his life be spared as he had a wife and children . Fr . Kolbe volunteered to take his place . The 10 men were placed in a starvation bunker . Over the course of 10 days , the men perished leaving
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Tuesday , August 13, 2024 It's almost QMX time I have been paying close attention to the QMX Assembled Kits Status page for weeks now . On July 29th , i was 167th place in line . As of yesterday , i am in 33rd place in line . They've really been pumping assembled units out , and I'm anticipating getting an e-mail notice about mine any day . now I've also been paying close attention to the QRP Labs iO group e-mail reflector and have been noticing that it's critical that the input voltage to the QMX does not exceed 12 Volts in order to not fry the finals . The problem is , of course , that any fully charged battery is going to have a voltage of 13.8 or 13.4 Volts on it . I know , that voltage is not
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Monday , August 12, 2024 Weekend mish-mash This weekend saw a mix of various Amateur Radio activities . Getting on HF was not predominant , although I did get on Sunday morning for a bit and worked a few POTA activations . Brave souls , those activators , because all weekend long , the Space Weather Live app was VERY active . It seemed like every time I turned around I was getting a notification of a new solar flare or a minor radio blackout . On Facebook , more than one activator commented about the crummy band conditions and the noticeably fewer stations that they were able to . log Saturday morning saw our monthly VE Session . We had two candidates , one of whom upgraded to Amateur Extra . Our
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Friday , August 09, 2024 One week to go Before I go into the goings on for this weekend , a shameless plug first . The NJQRP Skeeter Hunt is a week away from this Sunday . For whatever reason , signups are down this year . The past few years I've had over 200 people ask for Skeeter numbers and this year , I doubt I'm going to hit that mark . nbsp Whatever the reason , the Skeeters have told me that they always have a good time and that's the most important thing whatever the numbers . nbsp There's still plenty of time to get your own Skeeter number . If you're new to contesting , this is a low-pressure-have-fun kind of event . The CW is not at break-neck speeds and ops will slow down for you . nbsp In
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Thursday , August 08, 2024 We may never come this way again This is going to sound very weird but here goes . I was driving home the other day and I heard the Seals Crofts song with the same lyric We may never come this way again . And oddly enough , it brought to mind MFJ and how perhaps we may never see the likes of it again . It's very odd how my brain works , sometimes Scares even me I got to thinking that if there was any MFJ product in particular that I liked , now would be the time to try and find it . Stock is depleting and there haven't been any announcements of an interest coming forward to take on the torch , as it . were I really , really like my MFJ-1982LP End Fed . Coupled with Dave
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Tuesday , August 06, 2024 Some refinements needed Regarding the new mast . holder Since the Jackite mast is kind of free floating within the PVC , this version is not quite as stable as the older one , but it is more convenient to use . It folds flatter and I need not mess with wingnuts anymore . With the old version , the Jackite was secured directly to the vertical board and acted as its own stabilizer . nbsp The problem is that I keep this in the trunk and on the old version , the wingnuts would vibrate loose over time and get lost probably went to the same place that socks missing from the clothes dryer end up . nbsp I had to replace them several times and that was a pain in the . keister With
Pages Home Portable QRP Ops Morse Code Operating Mixed Media NJQRP Skeeter Hunt Suppliers Monday , August 05, 2024 The weather this weekend was frightful Not scary , frightful , just frightful activity . wise I got soaked coming home on Friday . I was following the weather and radar all day and was expecting thunderstorms here at work when I left for the day . It was bone dry , but the skies were darkening . All the way on the drive home , I could feel that darkness behind me , rather then see it in the rear view mirror . As luck would have it , as dark as it was , it didn't rain and I thought I would beat the storm home . As I got out of car in front of the house I park on the street there was a cloudburst . It began raining at a rate of over an inch an hour , with huge , heavy drops that