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 ...

The CW 100 Days challenge continues and this is the halfway mark. It seemed to make sense to look at where things were when it kicked off and where they are now. Also, what it might look like by ...

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...

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. ...

Making My Own Problems On an average spring to fall weekend in NE Ohio what I want to do is get on my bike, ride to the park, and get on the air. I’ve done that for about a year now and it’s be...

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! - an...

The Challenge The date of this posting is day 31 (for me) of the CW100Days Challenge started on Mastodon by F1RUM. Part of the community and accountability of the hashtag is to post a daily upd...

Support Your Parks Weekend is a seasonal event run by the folks at Parks On The Air. Since getting into POTA, I've been trying to activate and hunt for each of the events as they pass. More than ...

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 opt...

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...