by Tony | Apr 28, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Events
In 2024, the Waypoint Amateur Radio Club (employee club at Garmin HQ in Olathe, KS) hosted a 2m Simplex Contest for all those in the Kansas City Metro. Based on good feedback from participants, we decided to run it again with some minor tweaks to the rules. As Vice...
by Tony | Apr 24, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Expeditions/Roves, Satellites
After racing over from Lake Scott State Park and the somewhat frustrating activation I experienced there, my trip to Little Jerusalem Badlands State Park ended up being a nice change in scenery (literally). This park has actually been on my bucket list for some time...
by Tony | Apr 21, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Expeditions/Roves, Satellites
After setting out on my first new satellite activation of a Kansas State Park since 2020, I am back home with two new parks in the bag on my mission to operate satellites from them all. It was an exhausting ~36 hours of overnight Amtrak train rides, a couple hours of...
by Tony | Apr 15, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Expeditions/Roves, Satellites
On Friday, 4/18, I will be making a trip out to western Kansas to activate Lake Scott State Park (US-2352), Little Jerusalem State Park (US-5717), and hopefully Cedar Bluff State Park (US-2330) on satellites. This trip is my first step in 2025 toward (finally)...
by Tony | Feb 8, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Expeditions/Roves, Satellites
I am now back from my Turks and Caicos trip and settled with all my logs uploaded. It was a great vacation with plenty of beach time, exploring, and enjoying a respite from the cold Kansas City winter. While my daily update posts shed a little light on the trip, I...