I made a total of 91 contacts this year in #7QP which is fewer than last year but still respectable. #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

New video by demand, SharkRF M1KE unboxing, basics and how to use on a Mac via Safari. https://youtu.be/sObDFX1PhkA

#Hamradio #M1KE #SharkRF #DMR #AmateurRadio

Kind of wild that you can make 50 ohms happen at the feed point by adjusting the position of parasitic elements. :P #AmateurRadio #HamRadio
Kind of wild that you can make 50 ohms happen at the feed point by adjusting the position of parasitic elements.   #AmateurRadio #HamRadio

We've all heard about how pine trees allegedly have it out for #Meshtastic & #MeshCore. Like many urban legends, this #hamradio folk knowledge is a little bit myth and a little bit real.

#LoRa #amateurradio

https://rdumesh.org/your-pine-trees-are-not-a-conspiracy-what-we-actually-know-about-915-mhz-and-pine-needles-2/

Your Pine Trees Are Not a Conspiracy: What We Actually Know About 915 MHz and Pine Needles

Pine needles don't resonate at 915 MHz. They don't have to. Here's the actual science of what our most recognizable foliage does to mesh signals, and what to do about it.

RDUMesh

The radio weekend comes to a nice end, two quick videos and a blog post about the #zbitx #wrp radio are up: https://ham.bharathpalavalli.com/posts/20260502144921-making_the_zbitx_field_worthy/.

USB PD trigger is at: https://tilvids.com/w/tsKhLFmZhTBzje7MFSNZ9s
zBitx case mod is at: https://tilvids.com/w/tkTbZraFVJZihiyRD9zgWC

#amateurradio #ham

Making the zBitx field-worthy

Figure 1: Labour day well spent with modifications to the zBitx and powering it using a USB-C PD trigger This promises to be yet another long post, so please bear with me1! And as always, the TLDR; version: Challenges I have with the zBitx -Modifications I would like to make

Getting On The Air

As long as weather is sunny I once more activated DE-0192 (Saar Regional Park) for #POTA .
45 QSO was the outcome today, and besides many 'old friends' there was an #ATNO, a small island in the Caribbean called Montserrat.
Thanks hunters!

#hamradio #amateurradio

Beautiful, cool morning for a picoballoon launch. Launched just after sunrise here in Dayton, O. went up and then went down. Almost made it to the West Virginia border.

https://wsprtv.com/?cs=kf8eez&ch=244&band=20m&start_date=2026-05-02

#hamradio #picoballoon #amateurradio

@archer72 I do believe that's the exact same magmount/antenna combo that I had when I started on #amateurradio. I wouldn't trust that magmount whilst in motion though!

Got another patriotic AI-generated #QSL card today! Callsign redacted, again. This time, no weaponry in the image. Much classier

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