Portable power and field communications
Hello Operators. This is just a short post about the relationship between field communications, and portable power. Ham radio manufacturers would have us believe our […]
Field Comms
K8MRD QRP with the RS918
Hello Operators Today we watch Mike K8MRD work 40 stations with a Chinese mcHF clone, the RS918. He’s using the Packtenna Mini, and ridiculously large […]
Best battery for the Yaesu FT818
Someone asked what the best battery is for the Yaesu ft-818 in the HF pack group. There were lots of good answers, but the question […]
Winter Survival tips from Canadian Prepper
Hello Operators. Since the Raspberry Pi field computer and winter field test video is incoming (and ultimately related to this topic), I thought it would […]
Winter Field Day
Hello Operators Winter Field Day is quickly approaching. This year I’m approaching the event, from the perspective of a winter time, grid-down scenario. View this […]
Real Time Clock Raspberry Pi OFF GRID Time
Hello Operators.Todays topic is off grid time. Specifically, we are installing and configuring a Real Time Clock, for the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi does […]
Portable JS8Call Saturday 12 OCT 2019
Hello Operators. On Saturday October 12 2019, I’ll be operating JS8Call portable, on 40m, during daylight hours. I’ll be operating /P as oh8stn/p with the […]
WinLink Emergency Email Server for Raspberry Pi
Hello Operators Jason KM4ACK has a very interesting Emergency Email Server project for Raspberry Pi. This EES allows you to provide email access to users […]
Nortent Gamme 4 Hot Dome tent vs blizzard
Hello Operators. Many of you already know I’m the happy owner of a Nortent tipi/lavvo 6. Recently I also added the Nortent tipi/lavvo 4 to […]
Unorthodox Emergency communications with JS8Call
Hello Operators Many of you already know I’m a huge advocate of JS8Call. What you may not know is my opinion of JS8Call as an […]