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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

One Day Island Getaway with the Alexloop and the Icom 705

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One Day Getaway (1DG) is the US Islands Programs ' excuse to operate ham radio from an island on the second Saturday of May. Since I cho...
Sunday, April 3, 2022

Awesome RaDAR to RaDAR QSO

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Chris VA3ECO and I both participated in the Spring RaDAR Challenge on Saturday. We had radically different venues. Chris was on foot on a fr...
Wednesday, March 9, 2022

RaDAR: Get Ready to be Challenged!

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The next RaDAR Challenge is April 2nd, 2022 UTC. RaDAR is Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio fostered by Eddie Leighton ZS6BNE. The RaDAR “Chal...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Riding the Classic Exchange Time Machine

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I had a great ride on the Winter CW Classic Exchange (CX). Time Machine. As a Novice in 1967, we were limited to crystal control CW transmit...
Monday, November 8, 2021

Rapid Deployment Amateur Radio (RaDAR) Challenge November 2021

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I used a dog cart to ferry my gear for this challenge. This was a choice among many ways to carry my gear. The dog cart does minimize the pa...
Friday, November 5, 2021

N4KGL's RaDAR Challenge Plans for Saturday Nov 6th

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I plan to start on Saturday, Nov 6th at 1600 UTC, 11:00 CDT and continue for four hours.  I  will be using the New RaDAR rules available at ...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Why RaDAR?

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You will have more options in RaDAR for the upcoming Nov 6th RaDAR Challenge according to the new draft rules . Note there are new categorie...