doing a few updates on the site and added a "Odds n Ends" page for a general slush area for notes.
I've been granted the vanity callsign. KB8PXV has become
NØHIO
I'm pleased to announce that my YL has been awarded her Technician's class license. Please welcome KDØBMW!
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August 30, 2008
Those of you that are coming and going, will start seeing a change. This site will be a link off of N0HIO.net or will still be available at kb8pxv.com for a short while longer. We're converting the site over to a full N0HIO.net blog and this one will be shutting down by the end of year after I transfer the important parts. I'll be adding updates here occassionally but most work will be over at N0HIO.net now.
August 30, 2008
Campfest 2008 is now over ... what an intersting weekend. KDØBMW and I got to be present for a historic tornado in Park County Colorado, on Saturday. Hardly anyone camped this year but the potluck was pretty active. I took a little video of the campsite early Saturday, before tornado warning and such.. the sky was still great and no rain that plagued us most of the day.
August 17, 2008
Now have 20 confirmed states via LotW.
August 16, 2008
North America QSO Party day. 62 contacts in 22 states, for a total of 1860 points. I'm quite pleased with myself for search and pounce with the G5 up at 16 feet only.
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.
