Last weekend, National Institutes of Health amateur radio station W3NIH went on the air to participate in the Maryland/DC QSO Party. The event ran on both Saturday and Sunday, plus a break in the middle. It’s been quite a while (as in, years) since the club has participated in a contest, and I had suggested [...]
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[This was written a couple years ago, but is archived on a site that I am not maintaining, so I'm duplicating it here as well, to make sure that I have a "living" copy and to put it in the backup stream of this blog.] When my HP laptop went belly up after four and [...] I’ve never been overly concerned about collecting QSL cards, but it has bothered me for some time that I had not completed the basic WAS on LOTW because I lacked WV, DE, and WY. Both DE and WV are pretty close in, and I usually skip over them with my vertical antenna. All of these [...] I got up a bit early this morning and parked the car on top of the 6-story NIH garage in Bethesda to catch the 10:45 UTC (06:45 local) pass of Arissat-1. From there, the view North is unobstructed. The max elevation on this pass was 20 degrees, with AOS at azimuth 304 and LOS at [...] |
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