Didn’t expect it to be cold and wet but Dev and I still had a great time.
Category: Ham Radio
Alaska Marathon/Hamcation
I am just now preparing for our trip to Alaska and one item on my todo list is to setup our HT with the local repeaters. I already have it programmed in CHIRP. I also uploaded it to this blog so that anybody can just use the CSV files.
Extra! Extra! Get it while it’s hot!
Dev and I just passed our ham radio extra license exams and we are really excited ! We now have time to do more things like learning to operate CW!
We just bought a used KX1 and I already have it set up for listening and I also bought a paddle for practice but for now our priority is learning to copy cw. LCWO.net has been such a great help. I am now in lesson 5 and I feel that I have some progress. Slowly but surely for sure but I am in no hurry.
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General – Sir yes sir!
Dev and I just successfully passed our Ham radio general exam although a bit ill prepared perhaps. I almost forced her to review for the pass week but she eventually got to cram all that info in.
So now what, well, I am already obsessing in getting on air. I am looking at the KX3 but what I don’t like about it is that its qrp and in order to get it to 100 watts one has to buy an amp which when added to everything costs as much as a K3. Yeah, it’s portable but it seems like I don’t see a lot of people giving it a bad review which makes me a bit suspicious. It can’t be that good!
I’m now almost 80-90% decided on getting a K2-100 which I find very interesting. A complete transceiver that one can build almost from the ground up. I have little experience in soldering,a bit of a challenge but not impossible .I would probably take this real SLOW and research some more.
I also want to save a bit. I am thinking of foregoing the purchase of a tuner and just make myself resonant dipoles. I already purchased a spool of 14 AWG wire so I would put that to good use. We’ll see how this goes.
Not really in a hurry to do all of these stuff. First of all, this involves a whole lot of dough; next, I am also planning to be doing all CW but I am not even finish with the CW training in LCWO.net and not only that we are also planning for our Extra next month. So a lot of things on the plate right now.