by KR4DYT | Nov 30, 2025 | My ham experience
I’ve wanted to get into HF since the day I got my license. I wanted to take my time, learn a few things, and not make a hasty decision. I’ve been looking more seriously at HF radios for a couple of months now. I was hoping to put my hands on a couple of...
by KR4DYT | Nov 4, 2025 | My ham experience
I went to my first hamfest this weekend, which was the Stone Mountain Hamfest, that advertises itself as being the largest hamfest in Georgia. Carrying the moniker of “largest in Georgia” may have built the event up in my mind to be something bigger than...
by KR4DYT | Oct 19, 2025 | My ham experience
This weekend, my son’s Trail Life troop was camping at Chattahoochee Bend State Park. Since the focus was going to be bike riding, and I don’t have a bike, I decided to bring my kayaks, and my ham radio. I was going to do some fishing while they were...
by KR4DYT | Oct 8, 2025 | My ham experience
The ISS was broadcasting SSTV images again this week. The event doesn’t officially end until 3:30 tomorrow morning, but there’s no more passes between now and then that are close enough for most of North America to pick up, so its effectively over. I tried...
by KR4DYT | Aug 12, 2025 | My ham experience
Since my last post, I’ve been practicing and learning. I think I’ve figured out 99% of my radio. There’s a few things I would do differently, but I’m not an electronics engineer, so maybe there’s a specific reason why I have to access 2...
