ATGP Report from GRYLCK-11
This year I took part in the Appalachian Trail Golden Packet (ATGP) event, from atop Mt. Greylock in Western Massachusetts. ATGP is an annual event …
Category: Radio
SondeHub
Some fellow hams recently got me interested in radiosonde tracking, with SondeHub being one of the sites for tracking them. What’s a radiosonde, you might …
W3AXL’s NetConsole2
I want to get back to doing short little posts about interesting stuff I come across. And here’s a great example: https://github.com/W3AXL/RadioConsole2 — screenshot from …
Field Day
It’s been years–over a decade, and likely closer to two!–since I’ve participated in the ARRL’s Field Day, but I’ve been thinking about entering as a …
Thinking about bulk-tuner PCBs
A while back, I found that there are a handful of places that allow you to build custom PCBs, like JLC PCB. (This is not …
2020 ARES Academy online
Greater Manchester ARES has a nifty collection of videos they call ARES Academy 2020 online. For someone interested in learning more (e.g., me), this seems …
Boxboro 2018 videos
FEMARA, which hosts what’s now HamXposition and was formerly known as the Boxboro hamfest, has 49 videos on archive.org from the 2018 era. Even when …
70cm power limits across the US
The 70cm ham band is one of the fairly few ham bands where amateurs have a secondary allocation. This leads to a patchwork quilt of …