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District 10 will be running some lightweight, easy-to-follow activities throughout 2021 to help you s keep those messaging and digital muscles that they needed for SET in-shape. As any potential …
Ohio ARES D10 2021 Messaging Exercise Read More
This past weekend was the ARRL RTTY Roundup. Check out the write-up over at the Black River Radio Ops site. The first weekend of the year always starts off with …
2020 ARRL RTTY Roundup Read More
I’ve really been enjoying WG7J’s GridMapper. I like to create maps for contests to show all the places I’ve worked, and I thought it would be fun to make a …
KM8V 2020 Map Read More
Earlier this evening, UTC time it became 2021. Still waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square, but I reset my log for the 2021 DX Marathon. The Marathon …
Happy New DX Marathon Year Read More
The International Space Station and ARISS are transmitting SSTV images from the ISS to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ARISS. Here are a few received at KM8V. The gain vertical …
Images from Space Read More
Spent a little time with the deedles today for the OK DX RTTY contest. Not a ton of stations to work, but it was fun anyway. I didn’t put up …
2020 OK DX RTTY Contest Read More
Another question I see asked a lot, in addition to “What HF radio should I buy?” is “What power supply should I buy?”. I’ve used Astron linear power supplies, but …
Power Supplies Read More
This past weekend was the 2020 FT Roundup FT4/FT8 contest. I was busy and couldn’t work the whole thing, but I’m pretty pleased with my score, beating last year by …
2020 FT Roundup Read More
Thanks to some help from KB8O, the 135′ wire is back up in the air in sort of an inverted-L. VSWR plot from the NanoVNA below. It is working very …
Antenna back up in the air Read More