Sunny day on the beach

Here is a picture of my QRP transceiver setup before I decided to mount it for display and make it portable as a single unit. Here is a picture of the DIN rail that I will be mounting the completed unit

I am taking part in my first Ham Radio Field Day. Check out for more details about field day in North America. Here is a picture of my operating station. Low power 4 watts digital FT8 on 40M. Running fully

Well I had last week off and finally got around to building the QRPGuys Digital FSK Transceiver III. This kit is a digital Ham Radio transceiver that is capable of outputting 5Watts of power. The kit comes

Here is another QRPGuys kit. I built this 10-40M antenna tuner kit. The following is the parts laid out for inventory before the build. Here I soldered the PCB angle pieces to mount the front panel to

My next Ham Radio kit, another QRPGuys.com The following is my workbench setup for the kit build. This next picture is all the kit parts laid out to do an inventory. Getting setup to install the resistors.

New layout of my Ham Shack. So after building the new power pole distribution board it was time to get the Ham Shack layout redone. As you can see I put in a short shelf to have the Kenwood TS-440 and

I ordered and built a second power pole distribution board. I will be using this one for my reorganized Ham Shack. I have connected this one directly to a 25Amp power supply. In the picture you can see

That is where one Ham operator (fox) goes to a fixed location and starts broadcasting, for our beginners group he was just talking on a specified frequency. I was teamed up with a more experienced Ham

Been a couple days since I finished the first kit, in the this post I will show how I am using the 6 position dc power distribution kit I finished last week. First I replaced the end of the power cable

I was blessed with a gift on Sunday. A local Ham Radio operator passed away and wished that his radio go to a deserving Ham. My elmer VE3GSO was in charge of dealing with the Ham Shack contents and was

Here are the pictures of my second building session on the 6-position-dc-power-distribution-kit This is a picture with my soldering iron, I have replaced the small tip with a much larger tip. I had problems

Here are the pictures of my first building session on the 6-position-dc-power-distribution-kit: Here is the kit laid out showing all of the part ready for assembly: This picture I am have cut up the wire

I received two packages last week last containing 4 Ham Radio related kits. Number 1 - 6 Position DC Power Distribution Kit Here is a picture of the kit package: Here is the picture from their website:

So I saw a draw for a Raspberry Pi giveaway to celebrate Pi Day 2021. They were giving away 314 raspberry pi computers. @rishi556 once told me if you do not enter you will never win, so I thought why not.

An unhappy dog

Homemade pizza

The better half calls me a pack rat. :) I just have a problem throwing out technology related stuff that I might be able to reuse, someday. Here is a perfect example, I had a computer power supply die

Snow Day

I am getting my Ham Radio setup for HF and have a lot of RFI noise. Part of the testing is to turn off ALL electrical circuits in my house to see if any devices in the house are causing the RFI. To do