Steve WG0AT is a well-known Summits on the Air activator. His excursions to the top of SOTA summits to operate mountaintop portable with his to goats, Peanut and Rooster is legendary. But there is so much more to his story. Steve has been operating from the top of mountaintops long before the existence of SOTA. So what was that like? What was the motivation? How have things changed? Join us as we talk with Steve about those early days.
►► Here are Highlights from the Connecticut POTA meetup at Hamonasset State park in Madison, CT. Experienced activators share tips, tricks, and show off their radios and antennas.
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00:00 Prologue
01:14 Intro to POTA in CT
05:32 Radios, Antennas, and Go Boxes
24:45 Miscellaneous/advanced info about activating
42:01 POTA Contacts through satellite!
It’s amazing! They are probably the best and most popular amateur radio that you can get right now, but Baofeng’s get an amazing amount of hate! Do you own one, let me know what you think in the comments below. The Baofeng models I own are the UV-5R and UV-S9 Plus.
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0:00 The most popular and also hated radio of all
0:58 The best entry level handheld
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2:38 Popular radio brands in times past
3:38 Get a better antenna for your Baofeng
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6:34 How the Baofeng has changed Amateur Radio
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Welcome to the HRCC Halloween 🎃 Episode. We’re going to talk about why ham radio isn’t used in horor movies (the movies would be over in half the time). We’ll take your spooky radios stories and talk about the biggest scary thing that can happen to you playing radio.
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This is our weekly FT8 Sprint where we try to make as many contacts as possible in 1 hour. I say "try" because mostly we get distracted and talk about squirrels. Conquer the Bands, but be polite about it!