Camping with my kids and some ham radio friends this weekend. Spent some time turning the dial on 20m and tune into a POTA station with a familiar callsign. Made a nice QSO with N7PHY (@12poundtest).
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If you are a new ham (within last 6 months) you can apply for a "free" radio through QRZ with help from Gigaparts.
You will need to create a log in with QRZ and go to qrz.com/jumpstart.
You will receive a QRZ-1 handheld and RT systems programming software., as well as coupons for Gigaparts and...
10 meters has been opening up quite often lately.
Today I have Canada, Belize, Scotland, and Germany in the log. Heard Suriname (South America) but he had a heck of a pile up going and I just couldn't break it.
Techs, you have access to part of 10m and 10m will only get better as the solar...
Ok, let me preface this by saying I am not a youtuber or content creator however I put together a short video unboxing both the 575 and 275 and comparing what you get in the box.
Midland MXT575 vs MXT275 unboxing and visual comparison - YouTube
I will have another video in the next day or two...
Winter Field Day is this weekend, any hams here going to participate?
Due to parenting requirements, I will be doing it from home again this year but will be set up outside in a tent with a temporary antenna.
The solar panel and main battery are sitting in the sun, tablet and battery pack are on...
Just about 45 days out... are you going to participate this year?
For those new to Amateur Radio, Field Day is the largest ham radio event in North America. Clubs/Groups/Individuals typically set up temporary stations and portable antennas and operate off back up power(battery/generator) that...
For the last 5 years 3 ham radio friends and I have gotten together on this same weekend to go camping and play with our ham radios. There are multiple large QSO parties going on so contacts are easy pickings. We also activated the park we were in for POTA. I was able to make 35 park to park...
The new fee schedule which adds a $35 fee to a number of administrative actions for amateur radio and reduces the GMRS license fee to $35 will go into effect 4/19/2021.
Federal Register :: Schedule of Application Fees of the Commission's Rules
Anyone here participating in Winter Field Day (Jan 30-31)?
If you aren't familiar with Winter Field Day it is much like summer ARRL Field Day but is put on by a different group.
"Purpose: To foster Ham camaraderie, field operation, emergency operating preparedness, and just plain on the air...
New license, Renewals, and vanity call sign application will carry a $35 fee effective in the very near future.
Upon further review it appears GMRS is also included in this which means the license fee will actually come down from $70 to $35.
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-20-184A1.pdf
Built an 80m end fed half wave antenna over the holiday weekend that covers 8 bands 10m-80m, built the 49:1 unun transformer as well. It was a fun little project and I can't wait to set it up and do some field ops. At 134'+ I will need a lot of room to set up. This is the 3rd HF antenna I have...
As of Sept 2nd, 2020 a cross-band FM repeater on the ISS was activated.
Uplink: 144.590 MHz (67Hz tone)
Downlink: 437.800 MHz
I've seen reports that it's pretty easy to work even with a HT and whip antenna, no yagi/directional antenna required.
However, this is a multipurpose radio that also...
Came across this deal I wanted to share.
https://www.arrl.org/shop/Operating-Manual/
A 240 page resource containing info in the following areas:
Basic Station and Operating Techniques
Assembling a Station
Basic Operating Procedures
HF Digital Communications
VHF/UHF FM, Repeaters, Digital Voice...
For the Technician license holders... would the expanded HF voice privileges for Technician licensees on 15m, 40m, and 80m as proposed by the ARRL prompt any of you to get on HF?
Technician's currently have SSB on a portion of 10m...
When people are naming the routes do they purposely try to make it dirty? :smirk:
We have the T.W.A.T.. Trans Wisconsin Adventure Trail.. the T.E.A.T .. Texas Epic Adventure Trail..
Thinking the T.A.T. should have been named the T.I.T. Trans Interstate Trail. :tearsofjoy:
Happy Friday ya'll.
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