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Notes from the shack
Over winter break I have been putting in a lot of time behind the radio. Here’s the wrap up: First – more DX. In general, this is a good time of year to catch hams behind their rigs. Some contacts...
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NPOTA: ARRL’s Best Idea?
The National Parks on the Air (NPOTA) is off and running. Making contact with a handful of stations currently operating from NPOTA locations has made me wonder if the ARRL has had a good idea with...
View ArticleThe Day The Computer Died
I have been using small footprint computers in ham shack for a while. It started with the Dell Zino. Always a bit under powered, but enough to get the hamming done. The latest computer driving...
View ArticleNI0L…. Happy Trails!
I have a new, bright, and shiny callsign! When I made the decision back in 2013 to stay in Kansas after retiring from the military, I decided I would try to get a callsign for zero-land (or ten-land,...
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The FCC says you have a new callsign. Now what?
Once I knew that I had a new callsign, I sat down a wrote down a list of what I needed to do… (1) QRZ.com website. When my callsign changed a few years back from AD7MI to NI0L, I jumped on the air to...
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HF Email From The Mobile?
Last summer when we were camping in the national parks, there were many campsites where we had no cell phone service. I am not complaining about that, but our work around to communicate back home to...
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2016 Summer Trip – Day 55
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota. Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. Lakota Native Americans call it the Bear Lodge. Friday, July 22nd – Toured Wind Cave. Once we entered the cave and...
View ArticleState of The Shack
I have put in some serious time trying to get the ham shack back in usable order. A lot of progress has been made. (1) The shack computer has been replaced with a new Shuttle DS77U. Not a fancy,...
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LA6NCA
Helge’s has a great amateur radio webpage. I really enjoy his WWII direction finding equipment. The technology supporting RF direction finding really has not changed much other than automating the...
View ArticleGetting the J-38 into the fight
I have an old J-38 that I bought a few years back and it has remained in a storage container in the shack for too long. I got the key out today and connected it to the rig – it works, but is not much...
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