Category: Ham Radio

First Posted: 7/11/2021 Last month on ARRL Field Day, I made an attempt at doing 10m FT8 on a budget with mixed results. That was frustrating, but after a few minor changes, I’ve made twenty 10m FT8 contacts between 14

First posted 6/26/2021 Update 7/11/2021: Turns out I had an antenna issue, after getting that squared away, I was able to get many FT8 contacts off my balcony! Full story is now at http://kd9cpb.com/10m-ft8 You may have noticed it’s been

First Posted 3/6/2021 Welcome to the fifth and final installation of the Linux for Hams series of posts! Today we will be installing one of the most popular Software Defined Radio applications, GQRX, on our Linux machines. I’m going to be

First Posted 2/27/2021 Welcome to the third installation of the Linux for Hams series of posts! Today we will be installing the most popular Linux Echolink Client known as Qtel onto our machine. I’m going to be using Raspberry Pi

First Posted 2/21/2021 Welcome to the second installation of the Linux for Hams series of posts! Today I will be taking a copy of my beloved Baofeng UV-82 programmed by the 220MhzGuys about 6 years ago, and cloning it onto

First Posted 2/13/2021 Welcome to the first installation of the Linux for Hams series of posts! Today I will be doing something I’ve had on my to-do list for awhile: getting setup on Logbook of the World (LoTW) via the

As always, opinions in this post are solely those of my own, and not necessarily those of any organization I am currently affiliated with or have been in the past. First posted 2/13/2021 May 2024 edit: Most of the stuff

As always, opinions in this post are solely those of my own, and not necessarily those of any organization I am currently affiliated with or have been in the past. First Posted 1/17/2021 It’s been a few weeks since Mrs.

As always, opinions in this post are solely those of my own, and not necessarily those of any organization I am currently affiliated with or have been in the past. First posted 1/1/2020 Mrs. KD9CPB got me an AnyTone 578

First Posted 11/20/2020 What do 2020 and Shortwave Radio Listening (aka SWL) have in common? They both contain wacky stuff beyond anything you would have believed in previous years! As mentioned in my SDRplay post, I have a longwire antenna