A Mile High in W0C (or 2.7 mi. high, to be exact)

16 Jul 201718 Jul 2017

A biennial summer school gig gets me out to Denver regularly, and I make sure to work in a few days in the mountains. This year, for the first time,…

Danke schön and Auf Wiedersehen, SOTA/Europe

14 Jun 201716 Jun 2017

My six-month research residency in Germany is coming to a close, and I return shortly to the USA. I want to say thanks and good-bye to the Euro-SOTAns who have…

Mapping 2016’s QSOs

10 Feb 201714 Feb 2017

Playing with Log4OM, I figured out how to isolate qso's by band, date range, and mode and plot them accordingly on Google Earth. I learned something about propagation, or rather I…

Going Euro-SOTA: from W3 to DM

6 Feb 201715 Feb 2017

°° summit abundance ° pile-ups ° call signs ° antenna comparison °° Not quite a month into a six-month stay in Konstanz, Germany, I ventured out for my first SOTA-activating…

A New Call Sign – N3II

9 Dec 201613 Feb 2017

The FCC notified me this morning (9 December 2016) that my application for a new call sign has been approved. I am now N3II. The impulse apply for a new…

80 seconds of CQ

30 Sep 201622 Feb 2017

I'm abroad for a few months, at the moment in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. I haven't found a way to get on the air yet, and a work boom will probably…

Accessorizing: A Key and a Tuner

3 Aug 20163 Aug 2016

Keys and Tuners are certainly not accessories. But what do we call those things that we don't need more (or another of), but bring great delight in their acquisition? In the…

Stats: Half Year by Mode and Band

5 Jun 201628 Jun 2016

I just used HamLog to generate a few charts on my last few months of operating, my first few months of operating since returning to the hobby. First, a pie…

Operating between Fixed and Portable: The Home QTHs

16 May 201628 Jun 2016

I have two regular QTHs: on the university campus in DC where I live and out of a friend's garage on the eastern shore of Maryland. Particularities of both sites limit my…

Tapping and Talking

31 Mar 201628 Jun 2016

Two items arrived in the mail today: a new thumb tab for the Vibroplex bug and the Astatic D-104 microphone on a TUG8 stand. I've been able to play with the…