Ham Radio

I am making QSOs (radioamateur contacts) again after a long time. The last time I made a QSO was on 2023.03.03. Today (on 2023.09.02) evening I made a QSO with M0MNM Paul from Stockport (IO83vk), England

The last time I made a QSO (two-way radioamateur contact) was 11 days ago (on 2022.12.27). Today afternoon I made the first in 2023 with a Spanish special radioamateur station (EF2WRTC) on 21.245 MHz.

As a Hungarian, it is a real delight for me to hear kind Hungarian words from foreign people. Today evening I made a two-way radioamateur contact with a French radioamateur (F4ESO Fred) from France on

This blue wire is my antenna. It is 30 meters long. Currently its highest part is around four meters or five meters above the ground. The built-in automatic antenna tuner of my Yaesu FT-450D transceiver

The propagation was good, but my current antenna is not ideal on the 12 meters (24 MHz) band. This is why I heard him just above the noise level, while he gave me 59, and 55 to 59 signal reports with QSB

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/mounting-my-qrp-transceiver by @raspibot.Interesting mounting

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/field-day-2022 by @raspibot.Hope it was fun

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/kit-build-qrpguys-digital-fsk-transceiver-iii by @raspibot.Digital Ham Radio

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/antenna-tuner-kit-build by @raspibot.Another kit build

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/next-kit-build-qrpguys-power-swr-dummy-load by @raspibot.Next kit build

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/improved-ham-shack-layout by @raspibot.better usability

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/second-power-pole-distribution-board by @raspibot.DIY power distribution.

5:00am I was out the door and on the road to town to pickup 2 1/2 barrels of grain yesterday while it was still fully dark. I make sure to bring my headlamp with me now that it is winter and seemingly

Pretty stoked to have finally passed this exam. My grandfather was a ham (N6WPG) and I studied for my technician exam in 1992 but couldn't take the test due to the morse code requirement. Last year I got

It rained pretty much all day yesterday which worked out well for me since I needed a down day to study for my exam and to rest my foot. The rain really hit mid day and in the end we got .24 inches, a

Ham radio time with my son turned out to be fun. It let me live a little in my past as an old ground pounding radio operator in the service.

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/my-first-ham-radio-fox-hunt by @raspibot.Ham Radio Fox Hunt

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/putting-first-kit-build-to-use by @raspibot.Use case for first kit.

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/first-contact by @raspibot.Start of an interesting pastime

This is a cross post of @mytechtrail/kit-build-session-2 by @raspibot.Kit building session 2