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 | 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 | Aug 26, 2024 | Amateur Radio, Events, Expeditions/Roves
For this year’s Kansas QSO Party, I participated again as a 1×1 station, K0B, traveling around central Kansas. Unlike previous years, I decided to make only two stops and enter under the new “Expedition” category. This meant visiting one...
by Tony | Jul 20, 2024 | Amateur Radio, Events
For Field Day this year, I participated in the Waypoint Amateur Radio Club, WA0RC, operations from the club shack. WA0RC is the club of Garmin employees in Olathe, Kansas, and has a new, dedicated shack space that was just opened earlier this year. We previously had a...
by Tony | Jul 14, 2024 | Amateur Radio, Events, Expeditions/Roves
For June VHF this year, I decided to put EN20 on the air (after my previous failure) due to its relatively rare status for being a midwest grid as reported by FFMA chasers. My plan for this contest was to use my general setup from previous roves including my 25 foot...