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QuartzFest 2016

(Click any picture to enlarge. Descriptions are in the comments for each.) I drove two hours west from Phoenix last Saturday to Quartzite, Arizona for the swapfest at the end of 2016’s week long...

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Pixie Ears

The hearing of my Chinese Pixie is much better now. Pixie is a ultra-minimal ham radio transceiver that started several decades ago. The circuit has been tweaked, modified and improved over the years...

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Summits On The Air (SOTA)

I earned my first SOTA points a week ago as an activator, and again this morning as a chaser. Activators pack a complete amateur radio station to the summit of a qualifying mountain. Ascent must be on...

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K7EDS for Another Ten Years

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Something Broke

A week of intermittent attempts at JT-8 on my ham radio failed to make any contacts. Not a single one. JT-8 is computerized ham radio encoding for low power contacts. In simplified terms, the computer...

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