Well, this is better late than never, I guess. Back when I got my ticket, I decided that I’d take a trip to Hamvention out in Dayton (sorry, Xenia). Being an Ohio native with a dad who is into this stuff, I was well aware of the magnitude of the event and how big the…

No matter what else you learn to do, if you’re going to mess around with building kits, learn to unsolder components. You’re gonna read that resistor code wrong eventually. It uh…happened to a friend of mine this weekend.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, my dad gave me a great gift. He handed me the KD1JV Code Trainer from QRPGuys. I was able to solder it up in about 30 minutes and most of that time was spent finding a capacitor that found its way into the minijack. With that mystery solved, my favorite little…

I took and passed the General License test on 16-Nov-2017 at the Community Ambulance Association of Ambler. So now I can get my 20m stuff going! Still trying to find minutes to put together my BITX40 radio. I’ve got a pretty cool case that I found via a blog here. I should note that for…

I received my Technician license on 25-Sep-2017 with a perfect score on my exam. My first contact was with my dad, AC8NT, about a week later. Lots more to come!