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Freeze Your Acorns Off 2023 – Results!

Posted on February 23, 2023 by KC8JC

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 ended. It’s also not so bad when we consider that our team did not enter the…

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Freeze Your Acorns Off 2023

Posted on February 13, 2023 by KC8JC

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 2022 and the club wasn’t ready, so it was delayed until winter set in. Which, traditionally, in NE Ohio is pretty…

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Freeze Your Acorns Off 2022 Results!

Posted on November 28, 2022 by KC8JC

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 park via phone modes. FT8 was the only way out, sadly. But we stuck to it…

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Freeze Your Acorns Off 2022

Posted on November 7, 2022 by KC8JC

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 delayed to November. Now, typically in NE Ohio the weather isn’t great. It’s usually grey, cold, maybe snowy or rainy, and…

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It’s Been Quiet…

Posted on May 11, 2022 by KC8JC

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 like picking up our new camper. There will be plenty of pictures of that in a future installment as…

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Maker Faire Fun

Posted on November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 by KC8JC

This past weekend, PCARS went out to the Akron Maker Faire to show off ham radio. We put a SuperAntenna up on the roof of the building and dropped a cable down to the main display area. I set up my portable station. It was simply my IC-705 and the MS Surface Go 2 running…

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