Twelve Days of QRZ – 2024
I have been more focused on finishing the Twelve Days of QRZ with as many modes and bands as I can. I hit my goals and added a few more.
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Iceland Parks on the Air Notes
I did 11 Parks on the Air (POTA) activations in Iceland, two in Faroe Islands. Here’s a breakdown.
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Notes on Field Day 2023
I wrapped up another field day with my friend Paul (W7PEZ) in Eastern Washington. For the two days, I had 204 contacts, broken out roughly as: Paul worked 200 contacts, nearly all CW. Both are personal records. Neither of us were “running,” which would certainly have bumped up the totals, nor did we operate all
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Using Slack for CW Academy
During the latter part of my Basic class, when students were becoming more engaged, we ran into several problems with the email and text messaging. As an experiment, we used Slack in my intermediate class the most recent term. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive. In the spirit of trying to give back, I thought it would be
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N1MM+ and CWT
There is also a walkthrough of N1MM+ here that I did for my intermediate class earlier this week. Some definitions CW – stands for continuous wave, a simple method of communication where a signal is either on or off. It uses Morse Code, consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces. A dot is a tone emitted