QRP Fun with PCARS Every year, the Portage County Amateur Radio Service - aka PCARS - hosts a QRP contest at Fred Fuller Park in Kent, Ohio. This tradition goes back many years and it's always ...

Jamboree On The Air I'm an Eagle Scout. I was very, very into the program as a kid and both of my children are involved in Scouting. Since I got my amateur radio license, I've tried to help out...

Well, the results are in and Team KC8JC, made up of yours truly and my Dad, AC8NT came in third place. Now that’s not too shabby given that we went QRT about an hour or so before the contest ende...

Every year, PCARS hosts a club contest for QRP operations in February. Astute readers of the blog will note that the last one was in…November? Of 2022? Well, things happened back in February of 2...

The results are in! My dad and I came in 3rd place with a score of 1,566 points. Not too bad for a day where the propagation was absolute garbage and we were mostly talking to ourselves in the pa...

Each year, the Portage County Amateur Radio Service aka PCARS hosts a QRP “contest” at Fred Fuller Park in Kent, OH. It usually occurs in February, but because of many, many factors, it was delay...

It's been a while since my last activation. It doesn't mean that there's nothing going on around here, but it does mean that radio time in the field has been limited. It's been for good reasons l...

Display table with a MS Surface Go 2 tablet and IC-705 running WSJT-X. This past weekend, PCARS went out to the Akron Maker Faire to show off ham radio. We put a SuperAntenna up on the roof...