RaDAR GoKit & Plan RaDAR Challenge 2018
Hello Operators Saturday July 14, 2018 is the RaDAR Challenge. I’ll be participating in the RaDAR Challenge as I do every year. Previously I had […]
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Ham Radio Biathlon Prepping for the RaDAR Challenge
Hello Operators My passion for man portable field communications it’s no secret. In preparation for the RaDAR Challenge, I decided to challenge myself with a […]
Outdoors on the Air Field Day 2018
Hello Operators It’s always a pleasure sharing videos from VE3TWM, Tracy from Outdoors on the air. This time Tracy takes us along on the ARRL […]
Increasing Mobility & Portability when Man Portable
It’s often tough to balance the line between an effective full-featured HF station, and the ability to pack it all for man portable ops. The […]
Field Day 2018 – Every day is field day
Almost every day is field day for me, “Special Event” optional. The excitement of Field Day is seeing so many other stations out working /P […]
Radio Prepper Off Grid Emergency SIM on 80M CW
Hello Operators. Many of you know my friend Gil F4WBY the Radio Prepper. He is an absolute Morse code fanatic. Minimal shirt pocket size radios, […]
Solar Energy vs latitude
My dear friend and Elmer Bonnie replied to a question on one of my posts. I thought it would be incredibly useful to share with […]
Amorphous vs Polycrystalline vs Monocrystalline Solar Panels
When we are discussing solar panels for man portable off-grid Communications, there are really only three choices. Despite the paid-for-promotion YT videos, we can easily […]
Portable HF Station in a 5.56 Ammo Can
Hello Operators Last weekend, I spend a few days up North near Rovaniemi Finland at 66°North. I took the Yaesu FT-891 out for two days […]
Arctic Field Test Chameleon EMCOMM III Portable
Hello Operators. Today I’m at KP26JL. This is between Rovaniemi and Yli-Tornio Finland. The goal of todays trip is to deploy the solar powered Field […]