Just last week I decided to join the Straight Key Century Club (SKCC) because Jim N4JAW posted about it on his blog and it jives really well with my 2025 Goal to do more conversational CW. I got my number and plugged in my straight key. Cool? Cool! The very next day, I decided to…
This Is The Hard Part Some time ago, I wrote a post about the mechanics of getting your license. I got a little ping from a fellow operator mentioning that it was probably time to talk a little bit about step 8 in my list of steps to getting licensed. That step is Getting On…
Learning New Things Over the past week or so, I have been spending a lot of time with rigctl. This started as an investigation of why I was having an issue with tying together a number of applications and slowly unraveled into a deep dive on the workings and potential of rigctl. It has been…
Fundamentals One of the things that occurred to me recently was that there are certain bits of knowlege that I’ve accumulated in a very haphazard and incomplete manner. Some of those things are at the center of the way I play with radio and the things that I enjoy and I don’t really think about…
Fundamentals As I get more and more into this hobby, I begin to despair the information available on the internet. I was having an exchange with a fellow ham that basically came to the sad fact that things on the internet will give you some of what you need but will either leave out the…