by Tony | Aug 23, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Events, Expeditions/Roves, Satellites
For the 2025 Kansas QSO Party, I will be returning as an Expedition station running SSB from a few counties as K0T. I will be in Ellsworth County at Kanopolis Lake State Park (US-2342) on Saturday and at the Marion, Chase, and Morris county corner on Sunday. I will be...
by Tony | Aug 21, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Events
As with last year, my Field Day plans for 2025 were with my workplace club, The Waypoint Amateur Radio Club (WA0RC), where we set up a portable Field Day operation for the first time in over a decade (before I worked here)! As Vice President of the club, I took it on...
by Tony | Aug 11, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Expeditions/Roves
Well, it’s our last day in the British Virgin Islands! Yesterday, we were able make a number of contacts on a variety of bands. Early in the day, I was able to run a small 12m SSB pileup with a lot of great DX stations coming in. We also went to the beach for...
by Tony | Aug 10, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Expeditions/Roves
Yesterday was a fun day with lots of radio! The bad news is that the bands were in poor shape and the majority of my operating was on digital. I made a few SSB contacts on 20m and 80m later in the day, though. I was pleased that with a random wire plus tuner I was...
by Tony | Aug 9, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Expeditions/Roves
Quick post this morning to say we will be on the air shortly! We got going a bit later than expected but have our DX Commander, 6m 3el yagi, and Super Antenna all set up and ready to go along with our two station. I will be primarily focusing on 6m SSB today (50.125...
by Tony | Aug 8, 2025 | Amateur Radio, Expeditions/Roves
We have arrived in Tortola, British Virgin Islands! After a very early morning flight to Miami to meet up with Andy and grab lunch, we boarded our flight to Tortola. There were some minor delays leaving Miami but we are here more or less on time. Our plan for the rest...