Why? If there is one good reason to put down some goals for the coming arbitrary time period, it's to give a list of things one might do when one has time for the hobby but isn't really inspire...

First, Goals for 2024 First, a review of the goals I set for 2024 and how I did. Kilo at US-1999 - This goal was completed in April of 2024. That felt pretty good and it went quickly. Given t...

Radio Goals for 2024 Laying out radio goals last year seemed to work really well. It provided a place for me to look as I moved through the year to compare what I said I wanted to do with what ...

2023: The Year In Radio 2023 was a really, really great year for me with Ham Radio. I was able to get on the air and spend time investing in the hobby. It was a continual source of rejuvenation...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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 nat...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...