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Last weekend, I got to attend the Orlando HamCation. I actually had been planning to go with my wife, Silvia, for several years, but Covid put my plans on hold. This year, my employer, ARDC, actually paid me to go!
The first thing that I’ll note is that the weather was just perfect. Friday, the high was in the upper 70s, and on Saturday, the high was in the low 80s. If nothing else, it was great to thaw out for a couple of days.
Read MoreThe other day I had a QSO with Glen, W1ND. We have worked before, but this time, he mentioned that he had started a blog: the W1ND QRP Blog. Check it out. He has some interesting posts on his end-fed, random wire antennas. He’s had much more success with these than I have.
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted to try out digital voice on HF, check out the upcoming FreeDV Activity Day!
I’m one of the maintainers of the FreeDV project and have been working on getting more activity on the bands as of late. Back in early November, we had our first Activity Day and it resulted in the most simultaneous FreeDV users in quite a while, so we figured we’d make it a quarterly thing from now on.
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