Tag: ham radio
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Activation Report : Horse Ridge – W7O/CE-176
I wasn’t sure if I was going to get out to activate this weekend due to the rain in the forecast but things cleared up and it began to warm up so I decided to check out the Horse Ridge activation. I’ve ridden mountain bikes in the area quite a bit but mostly on the…
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Activation Report: Pistol Butte W7O/CM-091 : First CW SOTA Activation
After an aggravating day at the J O B, I decided on an impromptu SOTA attempt with my newly built Penntek TR-35. I spent part of my morning building a Google map of an area near Sunriver, OR for a future Moto-SOTA adventure. Most of the summits in the area are drive/ride-ups but there are…
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Penntek TR-35 4 Band CW Transceiver – First Transceiver Build
WA3RNC Penntek TR-35 4 Band, 5 Watt Transceiver One of the things that drew me to amateur radio is the kit building aspect. Only weeks into the hobby, and before I had my hands on an HF rig I was ordering parts for an End fed random wire build I found on the AARL site. The…
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K6ARK End Fed Half Wave (EFHW) build and test
I watched a video on the Ham Radio Crash Course about this very tiny and relatively easy-to-build antenna a few months ago and bought one right away from Amazon. It only took about 30 minutes start to finish, the hardest part being attaching the surface mount capacitor as the video describes. I have since use…
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Getting Started: My path to becoming a Ham
2021 … a year of trying new things. Amidst the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic I found myself transitioning into some new interests. One of my major decisions was to sell our club airplane as the 2 other members were leaving the area and I wasn’t up for recruiting new people after a year…
W7MTB: Amateur Radio Notes 