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Winlink Forms

hickey — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 02:32:35 +0000

One of the minor projects that I have been working on for a while now is to produce a Winlink form template for the weekly Winlink net. I have the first version of the forms completed and they are ready for download. You can find a description of what Winlink forms are and the download … Continue reading

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Tripod/Monopod Adapter

hickey — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 10:02:12 +0000

As hams we are by nature cheap. Partly because our hobby can be pretty expensive with all the radios, antennas and cables that we buy and partly because most hams are pretty industrious. We just don’t see the need to spend premo dollars on things that we can make ourselves for just a couple of … Continue reading

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Keeping a Station Notebook

hickey — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 23:56:30 +0000

Recently, this past weekend in fact, I came to the realization that I wish I had been keeping a better station notebook. You don’t hear a lot about this and occasionally one of the Youtube bunch will mention that everyone should keep a station notebook. I do have a station notebook, but I don’t keep … Continue reading

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November Sweepstakes Weekend

hickey — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 07:45:53 +0000

This past weekend was the ARRL November Sweepstakes (phone) and it was a pretty good weekend the contest. I should have put more effort into the contest, but I did not do half bad. Below is the map of the sections that I made contact with. Certainly this does seem to be the best that … Continue reading

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Don’t use kilowatt for phonetics!

hickey — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:42:08 +0000

Just don't do it. Stop adding to the confusion.

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SnoVARC Mini-Exercise, Part 2

hickey — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 06:20:00 +0000

This is the second part of a post about the SnoVARC mini-exercise held on 24-FEB-2021. This time I will attempt to stay on the original topic that started the post. In the previous post I went into a bunch of things that are generally good practices during EMCOMM nets. A bunch of good information and … Continue reading

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SnoVARC Mini Exercise

hickey — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 11:40:00 +0000

This past Thursday evening the Snoqualmie Valley ARC (SnoVARC) held another one of their mini exercises. The mini exercises are held once a month on the third Thursday of the month and attempt to provide teaching opportunities for emergency communications. With the snow that hit Seattle this past weekend–yours truly received 8.6″ of snow which … Continue reading

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QSO Today Ham Expo

hickey — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:45:17 +0000

Not sure how I missed this, but the registration for the QSO Today Ham Expo is now open. Early registration opened on January 4th. Last year the event was free to all those that registered, but given the cost of putting on the event the early registration has been set at $10 for the two … Continue reading

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Net Schedules

hickey — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:06:00 +0000

Something I have been working on for quite a while now is a easy to manage list of Ham radio nets. Now I am ready to reveal to the world the work that I have been doing and allow people to start to consume it. TLDR; The nets are organized as a set of YAML … Continue reading

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Good Info from HRU 2021

hickey — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:33:43 +0000

Today, January 9th, Ham Radio University is providing a number of presentations over GotoWebinar. This I think is the first time they are providing the presentations online and it is working well! Registration was free but $5 donations were suggested to support the costs of providing the GotoWebinar sessions. Personally I suggest doubling or tripling … Continue reading

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