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My First CW QSO

Posted on May 16, 2023May 16, 2023 by KC8JC

Monday evenings around our house are usually busy. My family has a standing activity and I use that time to get things done or sometimes to read in the quiet for a moment. Last night, however, I decided that since the weather over the weekend got the best of me, I’d head out to Cuyahoga…

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cw100days

Posted on March 21, 2023April 19, 2023 by KC8JC

Over on Mastodon.Radio the operator known as F1RUM decided to throw out a hashtag and invited people to keep him motivated on his journey to CW proficiency and enhance focus on their own journies. I’m in! The announcement brought people out of the woodwork to talk about their experience. As a result, my strategy has…

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West Branch SP on Phone with the X6100

Posted on January 17, 2023 by KC8JC

Monday was MLK Day. There was, surprisingly, nothing on the calendar for the household. No service projects. No Scouting events. Nothing. Just a cold, clear day in January. Without much thought, I decided to head out to West Branch SP – K-1999. This was the first park I tried to activate and the site of…

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Radio Goals: 2023 Edition!

Posted on January 11, 2023 by KC8JC

2023 is already underway and there’s always a strong desire to hang a new calendar and immediately start scribbling on it. Goals. Targets. Whatever the choice of words is, there seems to be a natural disposition to turning a year into an expedition. And that’s not a bad thing. Every hobby needs to have some…

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Zulu Time

Posted on June 29, 2022 by KC8JC

Usually, when I’m out doing and activation of a park, it’s on the weekend. And most weekends, I wear my Apple Watch so that I can still get communications from my family but my phone can be in a backpack or somewhere that I don’t have to deal with it. On my Apple Watch, I…

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Field Operation Log – 11-Mar-2022

Posted on March 14, 2022 by KC8JC

I took Friday off and managed to get out to Cuyahoga Valley National Park (K-0020) for a bit with my wife and her dog. I decided to leave The Mighty Nacho at home as the weather was questionable at best. For some reason Ohio can’t let go of the snow this year. While my wife…

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Field Operation Log – 05-Mar-2022 – First Activation!

Posted on March 7, 2022 by KC8JC

With a couple of failed activation attempts behind me, I decided to turn my park trips into experiments. Last week, I tried a different approach to my Jeep mounted MP1. That didn’t really do much for me. So this time out, I was going to ditch the MP1 and head out into a field so…

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Radio Goals for 2022

Posted on January 7, 2022 by KC8JC

I’m not a New Years Resolutions kind of a guy, but I do keep a running list of goals that I review every month. It’s a habit I got into years ago, and while it’s rather silly, I do it anyway. So as I was thinking about goals and radio, a neat blog post dropped…

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