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New shack photos

jeff — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:38:20 +0000

I got some free time this weekend to sit down and finally get the shack in order. Long enough to get some photos shot.

Icom ad in Tokyo

jeff — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:56:45 +0000

In a recent Panoramic image from Tokyo, showing how they cut back on electricity usage, I spotted something..

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Website updates

jeff — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:14:03 +0000

If you’ve followed the site at all, you’ll notice the looks has changed again, something that seems to happen a few times a year.

When I started to work on the site the other day, I added Facebook support so posts and comments flow seamlessly between the two services. This morning I extended that functionality to Twitter, a platform I seldom use on it’s own, although seems to be a great service for followers of my ham radio activities.

My Twitter address is http://twitter.com/n3qo.

I plan to update the site from The Timonium Hamfest coming up this weekend as well as starting a brain dump of my radio knowledge and findings into the N3QO Wiki.

–jeff
N3QO

QSL Card Collection

jeff — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:08:00 +0000

If you haven’t noticed already, a new section on the right column called QSL Cards. This is a “live” collection of QSL and eQSL cards as they come in. Click the QSL Cards link above for a bigger version.

Hamfest Weekend!

jeff — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:13:05 +0000

This last weekend (July, 4) was the start of hamfest weekend here in Eastern PA. On Saturday we traveled to the Harrisburg area to visit the Firecracker Harrisburg Hamfest and Eastern Pennsylvania (EPA) Section Convention. This was one of the better hamfests in the area. Tailgating was out in a field and there were very few garbage vendors. While there we picked up a Heathkit speaker for Laurie’s (KB3SIK) vintage rig and I picked up a 2meter mobile antenna and thru-the-roof NMO mounts. Of which I broke on during install. 3/8″ of brass isn’t very strong.

On Sunday with a heads up from K3GMT, we drove up to Wilkes-Barre, PA to the Murgas ARC Hamfest & Computerfest. This one was less than stellar. While I appreciate the attempt, having vendors selling their completely unrelated, miscellaneous junk is always a disappointment. If I remember I saw someone trying to sell a guitar and amplifier and someone else trying to sell a Laurel and Hardie doll. WTF!? On a positive note I was able to find the Sauder’s Electronics table and purchase some 3/4″ NMO mounts. Much beefier and look forward to drilling the holes in my roof later this week.

Next Sunday (July 12) is the Sussex County Amatuer Radio Club Hamfest. I hear this is the one to visit. I’ll have to make time since I plan on participating in the IARU HF contest.

website move

jeff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:16:47 +0000

During the last week I’ve been trying to find a solid place to move the websites as my current host has been getting more and more undesirable. Currently this site resides on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) over at Dreamhost.com. Dreamhost themselves have had their fair share of outages along the way, but I’m hoping to circumvent those issues by going the VPS route. It’s cheaper than the cloud, and the dashboard makes it easier to manage.

Welcome

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:37:02 +0000

Greetings and welcome to the new site! I’ve recently got back into the Ham radio hobby and I’ve created this website to act as a QSO log and propogation report. Feel free to bookmark the site and say hello! 73′s … Continue reading →