The First Activation of 2025: Solitude It was absolutely silent and completely deserted at West Branch SP - K-1999 on 19-Jan. It was Sunday morning at about 10:00 local time and the temperature...

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 ...

QCX-mini? Didn't You Just Finish A QMX+? Sometimes, things get shuffled around and end up on the back burner for a really, really long time. Embarassingly long. Back in January of 2022, I was...

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...

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...

Brought To You By… This post is about building a QRP Labs QMX+ transceiver. No, Hans G0UPL didn't sponsor this. Someone else made it possible. That someone else is Brandon Sanderson aka BrandoS...

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 appli...

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...

Circumstances It's mid-November and that happens to coincide with my birthday. In my semi-retired state, I have most days to myself after the kids are off to school. Sure, I have chores to do a...