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...
View ArticlePixie 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...
View ArticleSummits 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...
View ArticleSomething 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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