I recently relocated the shack from the old location in the garage into a closet in the front guest room. You read that correctly… a closet! The prior shack (pictured in 2014 NAQP SSB results) was out in the garage and left a lot to be desired. Factors leading to my decision to rebuild the shack included …
As I’m sure is true for most hams, since I was first licensed, I’ve dreamed of huge gain at huge elevation (above ground). Imagination pushed the bounds of what’s possible… maybe a local replica of the epic Radio Arcala OH8X 160m beam? A flex mounted way up the tower with WiFi and AC power for …
I just worked JR1EMO on 15m JT65. Working Japan from here isn’t terribly notable. This one was. Why? Because JR1EMO was my first HF contact 15 months ago. June 27th of last year, right after I got my General ticket, I transmitted on HF for the first time after JR1EMO called CQ on 20m PSK31 …
As I said back in April, I hadn’t planned on becoming a paper chaser. Now that I’ve started to track my “accomplishments,” it’s become kind of fun to chase the states I’m missing. I’d already gotten hooked on chasing DX and had been tracking the unique entities I’d contacted, but recently I’ve been paying attention …
What follows is an email I sent to the DX Awards Committee representative for the Northwest. This is largely in response to the July DXAC committee report. First, thank you so much for your service to this region. I also really appreciate the ARRL and all it does for all aspects of he hobby of …