Utilities Are Good For You Every week, I participate in Winlink Wednesday. I do my check-ins with pat. Once a month, they as for a weather snapshot to go with the check-in. This isn’t particularly onerous, but I have top open my weather widget and then type out the weather. That seems like the kind…
Pat Is My Friend I’ve been over the topic of my move from Windows and Windows-only ham software in the past, so I won’t rehash it. For minimal context I will say that there are no Microsoft products in my shack (aside from my Microsoft Surface Go 2 that runs Ubuntu). I would love to…
It’s Been A Minute… It occurred to me that I haven’t been posting to ye olde blogge very often and I think that is largely because Life is doing that Life Thing where time is at a premium and I have mostly been playing radio in between other things. No real experiments lately and no…
Out To The Woods The Parks On The Air Support Your Parks weekends are always a great excuse to get out and operate at a park. I really feel that events like this force the issue with enough enjoyers of the hobby and really are valuable items on the calendar. I mean, if once a…
My Contest I’m not a contester. In fact, I only do two contests each year and they have something in common. I do the Freeze Your Acorns Off QRP Contest in February and the Ohio State Parks On The Air Contest in September. Both are sponsored by my local club, PCARS. FYAO is fun because…
Endless Variation It’s pretty clear that POTA is my thing when it comes to this hobby and that my real goal is to get outside and play radio whenever I’m able. Usually, this is a solo run to the park or maybe with my wife if we’re out cycling. Aside from a couple of ourtings…
A New State (Commonwealth) I was first licensed as KC3JXQ and the 3 gives it away. I lived in Pennsylvania, but that was before I got into POTA and started getting out and activating. It didn’t become a thing for me until 2020 when my family and I moved to Ohio. So it was that…
Intro For the past few years, our family has gone to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for a week of camping and relaxing in some of the most beautiful places along Lake Superior. I’m a Great Lakes kind of guy and my wife caught the fever when we moved to NE Ohio. Our travels have…
A Nice Ride This week both the terrestrial and solar weather were in agreement that I could bike out to Cuyahoga Valley National Park – US-0020 for an activation. I’ve been keeping my cycling closer to home due to rain and whatnot, but with sunny skies and an ionosphere that wasn’t really unhappy with us,…
Yes, I’m Still A Ham It’s been quiet around the blog, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been out and playing radio. With the weather turning into real spring and temperatures that are above the 40dF mark, I’ve been spending a lot more time outside on the bike and a lot less time in…