October 26th, 2025 This blog might be a little deceiving: I have been just as active as usual on radio, I just haven’t had a ton of time to blog about it here. I loved writing my last post, but it took a total of about 8 hours over a few days to put it…
December 7th, 2024 One of the things I most enjoy about Summits on the Air (SOTA) is the comraderie, especially on event weekends. Here I am, along with a a few dozen other nerds of a very specific flavor, making a (more often than not) solitary trek up a mountain with radio gear for the…
I love the HamAlert app: it’s an ingenious tool that queries SOTA, POTA, RBN, PSKReporter, etc. spots and pushes them to your phone, and elsewhere, for filters you set up (called “triggers”). It’s a great way to stay abreast of when your ham friends are on the air, a DXCC station you need appears, or…
April 20th, 2024 Most of these photos have captions, but I cannot figure out how to get this WordPress theme to actually display them. I miss the straightforwardness of Drupal. /s This past Saturday was the spring Trans-Atlantic Summit To Summit (TAS2S) event for Summits on the Air (SOTA). It occurs twice annually, the other…
I first learned about The NorCal doublet from a YouTube video by my geology colleague and ham-radio instigator Tim (N7KOM). So last year I bought some ribbon cable, quickly made one, and it didn’t work: my radio couldn’t tune it. I suspect it was because my cable was 4 conductor and not 5 conductor. Zoom…
April 14th 2024 I was struggling to get out of the house this Sunday due to ever-present AI (autoimmune illness) issues, but wanted tacos from a favorite taco truck of mine in the Big Town about 20 minutes away; they have the best tortillas and their hot salsa is legit. A wonderful thing that has…