My Weeks in Radio
- QRP on a couple hawaiian islands
- not much 2m activity
- added some repeaters and scanned
- POTA
- Xiegu x6100 mostly turned up to 8W
- mostly 10m-30m and everything in between
- challenging to be on an island where you have to go thousands of miles or you reach no one.
- antennas:
- 40M EFHW where I had room,
- 41ft long EFRW with less room
- vertical whip and coil attached to a fishing pole for a less conspicuous setup on some beaches
- 6 parks and 2 trails on 2 islands:
- sandy beaches
- rocky lava fields
- inside diamondhead caldera
- atop steaming kilauea
- reached:
- west: Australia, New zealand, Fiji, Japan, Russia, China, South Cook Islands, Samoa
- east: North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Dominican Republic, Argentina
- practiced some CW on the beach when I didn’t get out the computer
- back to a home park yesterday, but the weather was not as nice.
- took down my home-made 2m antennas and straightened them up.
- trying F4HWN 3.7 firmware for Quansheng radios
- from a scanner-centered AUBSUK firmware that was skipping some channels
- looking forward to that FT Challenge contest
Other News
- contests
- CQ WW CW this weekend
- no contests for the Thanksgiving weekend
- following weekend
- 160m CW arrl contest
- FT challenge contest
- KA3TKW: R&L electronics: TYT MD-9600, GD-77 open firmware
- digipeat through the ISS
- high pass of ISS tonight at 9:10pm.
- 224.220 repeater is up and running, but not linked yet.
- KC3NNO: mini dxpedition to canada