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July 5, 2008

Happy Fourth of July to all the US readers (if there are any readers period). I celebrated this year with a new mode, PSK31. Picked up four contacts including a new DX. Much to learn with this new mode, and I'll be at it again today. I am amazed at how I did with the "antenna" I was using. It is my beater 20m dipole that I put together to do listening with back at the apartment. Its hanging at most 7 feet off the ground and the arms on it come down to ground level practically. Oh, and its in front of a chain link fence. I'm astonished it works.

My four contacts? New York, Colorado, Ontario, Canada, Guatemala.

June 29, 2008

Field Day was a smash. Went out with some of the MVDX/CC guys and worked with WB0TUA under the call of K0FS. KD0BMW and I worked until midnight with them. Today I spent the better part of the afternoon working to help take down the towers and clean up the site. Did manage to get 3 contacts under N0HIO as 1C near the end of the day.

June 16, 2008

Send your name to the MOON!

NASA has a neat little thing about the Luner Reconnaissance Orbiter. Your able to sign up to have your name as part of the project at the following LINK. See images below for what it looks like. Have to sign up no later than June 28th, 2008 to be part of this.

May 26, 2008

Has it been a week since Dayton? Wow, I'm behind.

So here we go, Dayton Hamvention = Great. Even with my getting lost and mucking up timezones when the phone had already moved it ahead on me. I wandered around the show all day on Sunday. Flea market really didn't have any fleas left at that point and there had been some damage to the Easy-Ups from the night storm (they were now Mangle-Ups). Got to walk the inside for most of the day and chatted with a few vendors. Only spotted two folks that I "knew": Harold Kramer of ARRL and Jeff Ryan of Colorado ARRL.

While on my way to and from I did pick up a couple DX's while mobile. DL1HXB as she floated around the Carribean, OS8A in Belgium, and PJ7/LA3ZH as he was at St Maartin. I really have to figure out this DX QSL thing.

May 6, 2008

Its official. KB8PXV is off the air for a while. Or at least until someone else gets assigned that call. While for sentimental reasons I will miss it, I'm now NØHIO. Time for new QSL cards and to modify all my beacons etc. See you on the air.

May 5, 2008

Worked a couple stations this past weekend between the 7QP and the NEQP. Also worked on a map of what states I have confirmed vs unconfirmed. Not to far off on the totals now, 21 confirmed (lotw or card) and 26 unconfirmed. Slowly working on my WAS, lotw shows 12 on phone so far.

April 21, 2008

On a whim we packed up the truck and headed to Nebraska this past weekend. The whim? The fine folk over in Colorado at EOSS.org were launching a high altittude balloon and it's footprint was showing to cover Nebraska, parts of Kansas but no real parts of Missouri. We set up base camp around 399 miles away from the projected burst but within the expected footprint of the APRS beacon.

The morning of the launch greeted us with some very windy and chilly conditions. The pop-up canopy covering the radio equipment finally broke to the point that it will need replacement.

I see by the EOSS.org website that the launch was successful, but I can advise you that KB8PXV/KD0BMW monitoring station was not. We didn't hear a peep on the monitor. But overall it was a fun weekend.

Round trip? 900 miles for a whim.