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My projects

Amateur Radio, Astronomy, Astrophotography

On this blog you will find things that I am working on.

  1. Set up a home position (Parking Position) for my Advance VX Mount.

  2. Get PTZOptics movie camera working.  Got it going next step streaming.

  3. Get StarSense working

  4. Work on Amateur Radio portable operation. 

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Nov
30

K-6934 #1 20221129 Pee Dee River State Game Land

  My first activation at my new residence.  NC K-6934 Pee Dee River State Game Land I see 4 POTA parks that I can easily get to. Living in the metropolitan area of Raleigh in order to activate the parks you had to work around traffic.  I see more activations in my future of multiple…

Nov
10

K-3854 Activation 27

  Location: NC K-3854 Middlesex  Date: 20221109 Equipment  Chameleon Portable HF Antenna CHA HYBRID Micro IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver Fun fun fun activating my home park Flower Hill State Nature Preserve for the 27th time. I made it to QSO 806. I had a short time before darkness fell. I decided to use my…

Nov
07

K-3841 #1 Falls Lake State Recreation Area

  Location: NC K-3841 Falls Lake State Recreation Area Date: 20221106 Equipment  MFJ-1984HP, ENDFED 1/2 Wave 40-10M IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver Operators Chris W4CEC 35 contacts , Mark N4MQU 37 contacts        Great same day activation planning with Chris Cancilla (W4CEC). He had to go to NC K-3841 Falls Lake State Recreation…

Nov
06

Activating my home park breaking the 100 QSO’s

I activated my home park today NC K-3854 flower Hill State Nature Preseve. If the FCC had an Aptitude test for getting your amateur radio license I would receive a low score but my enthusiasm overcomes that. I did have a few visitors to the nature preserve that was interested in what I was doing.…

Nov
03

Activating my home Park #25

Equipment MFJ-1984HP, ENDFED 1/2 Wave 40-10M IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver Great weather for activating Flower Hill State Nature Preserve my local park NC K-3854.I had to get out of the house for another house showing. I used my MFJ-1984HP, ENDFED 1/2 Wave 40-10M. It’s not taking me an hour to set up anymore. Thanks…

Nov
01

Flower Hill Working on the Kilo Award

    Location: NC K-3854 Middlesex  Date: 202201031 Equipment  Chameleon Portable HF Antenna CHA HYBRID Micro IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver There are various options in setting up the vertical antenna. Today I used the Cha Spike mount. We had a busy month getting our house ready for the market.  I decided to start activating…

Oct
30

Gov Aycock Birthplace Fall Festival

Location: NC K-6835 Governor Charles B. Aycock Birthplace State Historic Site Date: 20221029 Equipment  Chameleon Portable HF Antenna CHA HYBRID Micro IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver There are various options in setting up the vertical antenna.  I used the Cha Spike Mount. With no counterpoise.   Today amateur radio was invited by the parks administrator to…

Sep
24

K-6964 #1 Voice of America State Game Land

Location: NC K-6964 Voice of America State Game Land Date: 20220923 42 contacts  Equipment  MFJ-1984HP, ENDFED 1/2 Wave 40-10M IC-706MKG HF/VHF/UHF All Mode Transceiver Operators Brandon KO4YJA, Mark N4MQU Prior to this activation the site had only been activated 4 times.  After we arrived we could see why. A lot of challenging obstacles.  I had…

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