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Portable Digital Operations Setup with wfview

Posted on April 8, 2024April 8, 2024 by KC8JC

What Are We Doing? This blog exists for me to catalog sucesses and failures. The other thing it does is provide me with a place to put things so that I can get to them no matter where I am assuming – an internet connection. The topic for today is a refresher on my setup…

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Cycling Activation at CVNP on a BEAUTIFUL Afternoon

Posted on May 8, 2023May 8, 2023 by KC8JC

This is the time of year that tries my patience. The weather can be gorgeous one day and miserable the next. After a week of grey and on and off rain, there was finally a break in the clouds. The forecast for that Saturday called for clear skies and a high in the low 60dF…

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A Winlink Wednesday Check-in Without Winlink

Posted on May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 by KC8JC

After my switch over to Ubuntu on my Surface Go 2, I went on the hunt for a way to continue my Winlink Wednesday check-ins and, more importantly, maintain my ability to use email from the field. I’ve chronicled some of that success here. In the end, I settled on using ARDOP with Pat as…

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Backyard Portable Experiments – X6100 and Chameleon Delta Loop

Posted on April 24, 2023 by KC8JC

Time To Experiment My POTA activations are supposed to be recreation. That is, they should involve setting up the station, operating it, getting enough contacts for an activation – or not! – and then packing up and heading home. This isn’t supposed to be stressful or a place to deal with the bumps one hits…

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Pat and ARDOP: Success

Posted on April 13, 2023 by KC8JC

It took a minute, but it works. The last week or so has been a lot of fun diving into some software and tweaking things to get them where I need them to be. There are some really great free options out there for radio communications that do not involve MS Windows or any proprietary…

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The Activation That Almost Wasn’t

Posted on April 10, 2023 by KC8JC

After all of the work in getting my computer setup for field work again, I was itching to get outside. Easter Sunday presented a very nice opportunity. The weather was stunning. It was in the mid-50dF range with light breezes and perfectly blue skies. It was a great weekend in general and my wife and…

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Breaking Out Of Windows

Posted on April 7, 2023 by KC8JC

“Broken Window” by akeg is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. A Little History A couple of years back, I decided that I wanted to spend more time on the air and less time playing around with IT nonsense for radio. The quickest path to that, it seemed at the time, was to jump in and…

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