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...
by KR4DYT | Jul 20, 2025 | My ham experience
So many letters for so many different things… Before I obtained my ham radio license, I tried capturing SSTV images from the ISS. Just in case you’re not familiar, the ISS is the International Space Station, and SSTV is Slow Scan Television. SSTV images...
by KR4DYT | Jul 16, 2025 | My ham experience
Last week I ordered a new Yaesu FTM-150RASP. It delivered on the 14th, but I was away from home for a couple of days, so I had to be an adult and show some patience. This morning (2 days after delivery) I finally got to to come home and open it. I’m not really...
by KR4DYT | Jun 19, 2025 | My ham experience
Last night, after my last post, I was scanning and heard the Hall County ARES net checking in. This was on the W4ABP repeater on top of Wauka Mountain in north Georgia. Its the same repeater that I had talked through earlier in the day that’s 80 miles away from...
