Thanksgiving was also nice because I got my 5th QSL card from the PA QSO Party. My desk is starting to look really nice with all these QSLs. Thanks to all who sent me a card ( Read more... )

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My QSL card collection is beginning to increase in number. I am so excited!

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I spent the evening writing QSL cards, updating my paper log book, and organizing my notes from the contest. I wrote up three QSL cards for PA, two for Tennessee, and one in Braille for Michigan. It was nice to get the slate and stylus out again. It's been a long time ( Read more... )

I finally organized my ham radio notes today. I filled one notebook with information on how to make CW QSOs, band plans, Q-signals, abbreviations, prosigns, and contesting info. I filled the second notebook with equipment manuals and EmComm notes. My desk looks much better now. I have the QSO notebook stacked with my logbook, Operating Manual, ( Read more... )

This weekend was a busy one and I never did get that extra sleep that I wanted to catch up on ( Read more... )

Today's CW meeting was...exciting. It was the first time that I experienced another station trying to talk on the same frequency as me. Apparently, the other station couldn't hear my weak signal and so he started sending code. He didn't hear me, but boy, I sure heard him. I was rather startled! All of a sudden I hear some pretty loud code that ( Read more... )

Today was different. I took a long conference call over my lunch break and commenced QSL card production after dinner. The Word template for the cards was being a hassle until I learned that if you hold Alt + click and drag the mouse, the image will move more precisely than it would otherwise. Even after that, I had some frustrations getting ( Read more... )

My CW is improving thanks to regularly scheduled evening meetings on 14.053 MHz ( Read more... )

I made my first CW contact this morning! :D I am so thrilled that I don't know what to do with myself ( Read more... )