My POTA flag caught the attention of the U.S. Coast Guard while patrolling the Ohio River during my #POTA#parksontheair#Morsecode P2P QSO with Dave #K2JVB at US-0679 Fire Island National Seashore, Long Island, NY to the banks of the Ohio River. #AmateurRadio#hamradio
Looking for something else entirely I found these design from when I was a professional radio engineer. I can't believe that career never took off with work like this. #radio#hamradio#engineering
Got in a #Morsecode#pota#parksontheair activation early this morning before T-Storms. I get so EXCITED when I have a QSO with someone from Social Media, like this Park-to-Park with Scott #KW4NJA @medic1027 from GA to KY #AmateurRadio#Hamradio
"On or around May 12, 2024, ARRL was the victim of a sophisticated network attack by a malicious international cyber group. ARRL immediately involved the FBI and engaged with third party experts to investigate.
This serious incident was extensive and categorized by the FBI as “unique,” compromising network devices, servers, cloud-based systems, and PCs...."
The BEST park of #parksontheair#POTA. THE VIEWS! Early morning #moreseCode activation on the Lewis & Clark National Historical Trail US-4572 on the banks of the Ohio River at Louisville, KY. USA. Where's Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn? #AmateurRadio#hamradio
We had some #sporadicE in late morning/early afternoon... but that was nothing compared to over 6 hours (!) of a HUUUUUUGE Es opening to Mallorca, Italy, Tunisia, Algeria & Greece!
Even logged 2 Greek stations as late as 2129z = 0:29am in Greece! 😱
And I have 62 IQ files totalling 45.1 GB + an hour or two (idk) of unattended scan on YT.
On live listening only, I made 173 logs. Could be more but FMLIST didn't cooperate at some point.
Europe's total? 9366 logs from 229 DXers 😬🤯✈ #fmdx
Meanwhile, Make More Miles on VHF reports about #sporadicE on #2m!
Some users of the site reported QSOs with stations located as little as 1000km away 😮 Imagine where the MUF was to allow such a short skip on 144 MHz 🤯
The best takeway though is that 2m DXers are coming back to voice contacts, as they notice #FT8 isn't that effective on such decent openings (at least if you use a Yagi of at least 9 elements that is 😆)
That does not look right at all.
23dB attenuation in between the transverter and spectrum analyzer.
The attenuators are specced to 6GHz and 11GHz, so no problem there either.
TX gain maxed out and hitting the transverter with +20dBm on 144MHz and this is what I get.
As much as I dislike power poles, and I do significantly dislike them, at this point it seems like trying to use anything else is like trying to use different AC electrical plugs and sockets. Seems like a lot of hams, well, went ham over them and made them into a de facto amateur radio standard.