21 Tech Net: 2025-10-26

My Week in Radio

CQ WW DX SSB Contest

  • 12 contacts
    • including Canary Islands near Africa
    • heard lots of places that couldn’t hear me: Galapagos
  • QRP (<5W)
  • Logged in World Radio League website and phone
  • exported a Cabrillo file in the right format to submit!
  • POLO didn’t seem to collect the right fields

Great Ham Fest in Harrisburg

  • Saw some faces from a couple different repeaters I frequent
  • Tom’s satellite presentation was great, and we had a really good pass to hear the astronauts talking to the museum in Indiana.
  • Bought a cheap power meter for HF and some connectors for it

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