My very QRV "end times" radio. Works great on CW! When this radio was first introduced Lyndon Johnson was President and I was 3 years old. This is how radio amateurs keep it real old skool!

The Buddipole set up for 20 meter vertical dipole operation.

Powering up the Kenwood TS-440SAT for the first time in quite awhile earlier tonite. I hope to put in on-the-air later this week.

Bought it new in 1989 after operating it's younger brother at a club field day event, the TS-430, still loving it!.

mobile setup 1 my daily car, with 2 m / 70 cms and hf antenna .. until the Land Rover 101 is finished with ex-army radio setup

mobile setup 1 my daily car, with 2 m / 70 cms and hf antenna .. until the Land Rover 101 is finished with ex-army radio setup

mobile setup 1 my daily car, with 2 m / 70 cms and hf antenna .. until the Land Rover 101 is finished with ex-army radio setup

Christmas and Christmas Eve with the Family 2016. Really nice ham radio HF antenna setup near the park.

YO8SDE doing some repeater de-riming on Toaca peak, Ceahlau

My 2nd hobby I had less than a year ago in MS. Not sure if I will have anything close to what I had in the radio world here in Wyoming. Always pluses and minuses.

Christmas and Christmas Eve with the Family 2016. Really nice ham radio HF antenna setup near the park.

This is my rig for portable HF operations, usually Summits On The Air (SOTA): a Yaesu FT-857D transceiver, running through an LDG Z-11 Pro II antenna tuner. To the left are the various components of my lightweight W1SFR 35-foot end-fed wire antenna, which is good for 40 to 6 meters.

For power, I use a Bioenno BLF-1206A 12-volt, 6 amp-hour LiFePO (lithium iron phosphate) battery (not shown).

We are currently vacationing at South Lake Tahoe, California; no summit activations this time around, but I plan to do some “portable” operating from the deck outside our Airbnb.

My late father Alf Goodwin (GM3RYO) with two other enthusiasts preparing to raise the kite supported aerial on the hills above Stranraer for a contact with some of their Irish pals. Probably circa 1960.

This radio was a regular visitor to the patio table this spring & summer during the first wave of COVID-19 sheltering, it was an outstanding performer & utilized battery power!

As of today, health officials in Ottawa have declared they are in the beginning of the second wave & daily provincial numbers have been steadily increasing, we haven't seen them this high in months.

It is not a very good sign.

Yes that is a microphone plugged in! ;0)))

It's a cheap FM VHF/UHF radio. There are better radios with more function, but this one was cheap. It gets me on the air quick. Programming cable and antenna was included. I installed the software on my desktop to load channels. It can be done manually as well.

Scanning stopped on repeater WD6EJF (145.390 MHz), Mt. Oso (west of Modesto, California).

I am listening to my Ecophone EC-1 in 1960.

Transmissions before nights comes

It's always nice to get away from it all for awhile in the middle of the day.

While band conditions have been quite poor with just a sprinkling of contacts lately, the trip to the car is still more than worth it for the meal alone.

Pictured:

A home made toasted chicken sandwich by none other than my XYL (wife) Sue.

It was super delicious as usual, complimented by a bottle of spring water...it really "hit the spot", thanks Sue!

72/73

Daryll

Yet another pleasant surprise on 40 meters cw this past weekend working N1A (Neil #1 Armstrong) in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the First Man on the Moon. The Milford Amateur Radio Club - W8MRC in Milford, Ohio celebrating the 50th anniversary of man's first manned voyage to the surface of the moon.

Handy for developing and testing simple circuits with IC's and transistors.

My grandfather was an amateur radio operator, obtaining his license in 1932 as a teen, call sign W7CSC. He collected QSL* cards for the next 50 years. I thought I'd share some of them.

*From Wikipedia: QSL cards are a ham radio operator's calling card and are frequently an expression of individual creativity — from a photo of the operator at his station to original artwork, images of the operator's home town or surrounding countryside, etc.

Moundsville, WV

Scanning stopped on repeater W6YOP (224.920 MHz), Concord, California.

Ahora si!, hoy me entregaron mi licencia de Radioaficionado, valida para operar en categoria novicio hasta el 31 de dic del 20013!

The antenna on the hotel balcon, pointed to the satelite QO100.

My "go to" vertical antenna for 20 meters. The vertical radiator is a full quarter wave in excess of 16.5 feet tall. It performed flawlessly making cw contacts into Europe & the USA! Setup was in the order of 15 minutes max fully tuned. The view beyond is Marine City , Michigan.

My ever-evolving radio shack. Active on 2, 10, 20, and 40 meters.

In the K1DOD shack and mobile: Yaesu FT-2000, FT-8900 (satellite and packet), FT-817nd (portable HF), FT-1802, FTM-10R (Vespa Scooter mobile) , VX-8R (APRS/GPS enabled), VX-5R, VX-150, Kenwood TS-2000x, ICOM IC-92-AD (D-Star), Yaesu Aviator Pro II (aircraft transceiver), Motorola MTS 2000 (California State Parks), Iridium 9505A satellite phone, IC- R20, IC-RX7, Bearcat BCT15, Sony Wavehawk, Cobra 38 WXST (CB HT), MFJ 993B, Force 12 GT5 vertical dipole, homebrew copper pipe J-pole, Radiowavz G5RV center fed multiband, Rigblaster Plus, Rigblaster Plug and Play, DV Dongle, Echolink, Macs and PCs.

Well I suppose there were better things to be doing this aft but I mostly spent it looking up to the clear blue sky & pondering life.

Life without 80 meters & where in the world I would find room to erect a better antenna for that band within the property lines of our postage stamp size property! (~130 feet long)

I accomplished this feat here previously by running my antenna cable out a hole in the peak of our one story roof to feed a balun which in turn fed the both legs of the this very low to the ground nvis dipole, it worked ok! (max height ~15 feet)

In both cases the legs wrapped around one of the trees towards the corners of the property & then ran back to either eaves trough so if you looked from above it formed a large "W"! After a few years I removed it much to the delight of a neighbour a couple of doors down who once loudly exclaimed, "Just what in the H_ _ _ are all those wires about anyway"? ;0)

Pictured are my efforts of the day, assembly of a brand new 80m yoyo dipole from my spare parts box, all measured out & ready to deploy, stay tuned!

And yes, that same neighbour is still living there & I'm getting ready to p _ _ _ him off all over again! ;0)

Wish me luck.

72/73

Daryll

Here are some photos of the Yaesu SCU-23 cable end that the Yaesu camera mic plugs into - note the bad white wire that is "busted" off the circut board - PTT stopped working on this 60.00usd cable.

Opening ceremonies at QuartzFest 17, a ham fest geared towards RVers and portable ops.

I worked Vladimir, UW5EJX/MM (Maritime Mobile) on board a Ukrainian tanker ship in what would seem to be Walvis Bay just off the coast of Namibia in the continent of Africa in the wee hours this morning on 40 meters FT8!

The worlds coolest hobby, aside of digital photography of course. :0)

Clean Sweep

I have worked all 13 Colonies & 1 Bonus Station as pictured!

Looking for the 2 more bonus stations!

13colonies.us/

I know there are still difficulties with Flickr.

I'm not seeing at least some comments even though one has done so & I receive an email saying so.

Thanks for the visit, hopefully this will all be better sometime soon!

Had a lot of fun on 6 meters FT8 on Sunday.

The map on the left shows real time propagation while the one on the right shows where my signal was heard & how long ago.

I managed to work Bermuda & many others in the eastern half of the states & southern Ontario of course.

72/73

Daryll

DARC Lecture And Lab Aug 2022, 137-MHz helicoidal loop antenna pair for receiving weather satellite images and aircraft radio voice transmissions - 2" PVC pipe, 1/2" PVC pipe and some coax.

Here are some photos of the Yaesu SCU-23 cable end that the Yaesu camera mic plugs into - note the bad white wire that is "busted" off the circut board - PTT stopped working on this 60.00usd cable.

Special Event Station

I worked Vlad at the W0O Mid-MO Amateur Radio Club in Frankenstein, Missouri on 40 meters cw late this afternoon.

What a fun contact!

(they need to update their card to 2020)

73

Daryll

Here are some photos of the Yaesu SCU-23 cable end that the Yaesu camera mic plugs into - note the bad white wire that is "busted" off the circut board - PTT stopped working on this 60.00usd cable.

A phone contact on 40 meters!

I was tuning around between chores yesterday & heard a guest operator Rob, calling cq from ARRL Headquarters in Newington Connecticut . The band was shaky yestersday but he had a great signal as one would expect, it was a memorable contact!

(this is a big deal for amateur radio operators!)

(Photo courtesy of www.QRZ.com)

www.arrl.org/w1aw

Amateur Radio QSL Rcvd from non "Donetsk Peoples Republic" Ukraine