Amateur Radio

Set up a Windows computer in my ham shack and added N1MM and MMTTY. Works really well and just in time for the NAQP RTTY Contest. Read more...

The sticker for my CQ DX Award arrived today. I've managed to confirm with paper QSL cards 200 countries worked using Morse Code, aka CW. Read more...

I ran the CQ WPX RTTY contest this weekend. Got on the air for right at 13 hours of the total 48 hours of the entire contest. Fairly casual effort and didn't lose any sleep. Still managed to make 398 QSOs and 218 different call sign prefixes for just over 180,000 points. Read more...

This weekend I entered another RTTY (radio teletype) contest, the BARTG Sprint. BARTG stands for British Amateur Radio Teledata Group. Read more...

Today I wired up the FLEX-1500 that I won last week and got on the air.

This week we finally announced the Boy Scouts of America Amateur Radio Operator Rating Strip.