985 Workbench Net - 2024-01-29

My Week in Ham Radio

  • FCC/ARRL meeting in Harrisburg
  • Activated a state game land park after the meeting
    • 10m
    • near Middletown
    • Lots of west coast
    • Compared vertical whip with jumpered coil vs efrw
  • Built more wire j-poles for more permanent mount
    • NanoVNA is lots of fun, since I can now measure and tune any antennas
  • Field day at Welsh Mountain with W3RRR club
    • Repack bag yet again for portable op
    • Learned about winlink
    • Operated outside on 80m at 3pm, so slow
  • Clipperton on 40m FT8
  • Back to learning CW on morse machine at LCWO.net
    • 20wpm
    • Single character at a time, waiting for me to answer before proceeding

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