It has been a while. I took an intentional break from posting when I moved from teaching the Padawans to my new role at ARRL… but it is a new year… and we are back!
Jherica surprised me with a couple quick POTA activations, and one was on my birthday! Thanks for sticking with us!
At our Open Day for our radio club, Richard VK7ZBX showed off his newly finished trailer mounted 10 GHz EME dish! Pretty impressive for sure and a work of engineering!
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Stoked to finally be back in the hills with my radio!
Thanks for coming along with me and the pup for a little adventure up Brow Peak in Queenstown New Zealand to net some solid low power international radio contacts!
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