Author: KH7AL

  • Ham Under the Stars

    Ham Under the Stars

    5 January 2025   Well, on my Sunday night I set out to try 15m. It was a beautiful evening. Just a light notherly breeze off the ocean. As the stars really began to shine I turned on my radio around 0800z with hopes for favorable band conditions. They were marginal at best. That made the… Read more

  • Don’t Always Trust the Band Report

    Don’t Always Trust the Band Report

    2 Jan 2025   With it being New Year’s day for North and South America and a half-work day for me I set my alarm with aspirations to play radio first thing in the morning. I woke up with plans to get on 10m. A quick check of the band report showed “poor” conditions on all… Read more

  • Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year!

    31 December 2024    In just over the past 24 hours (my Sunday night through Monday night) I logged 590 contacts, in about 6 hours of time on the air. That was an exciting adventure and definitely a mental exercise. Speaking of mental exercise, I noticed with all this practice copying more unique callsigns than I… Read more

  • 5,000 Mile SOTA for Breakfast

    5,000 Mile SOTA for Breakfast

    30 December 2024 am edition  After getting to bed around 1 am here, I was up at 6:30 am to get some breakfast before heading back out to play more radio. This morning I set up on the north side of the island at a little spot affectionately known as Pirate’s Cove. Technically there isn’t… Read more

  • Calling the North Pole

    Calling the North Pole

    29 December 2024   Some colleagues invited me to a campfire at the beach tonight. It was a beautiful evening and we witnessed a gorgeous sunset. After I set up my antenna I tuned around the band. The first station I heard calling CQ was none other than Santa Claus World – OF9X. I didn’t realize… Read more

  • No wet logs please.

    No wet logs please.

    27 December 2024   I had some spare time this evening so I decided to head out to the beach and try 15m around 0640z. Several JA stations quickly picked me up and things were going smoothly. Then someone must have spotted me and at 0700z the band exploded with calls from EU rolling in. I… Read more

  • 10m Adventure Today

    10m Adventure Today

    22 December 2024 Well, after calling on 28.320 for about twenty minutes and hearing no one I decided to tune around the band. Glad I did as I found N4BAA and after a quick QSO he graciously let me have the frequency. Away it went. Over 200 contacts this morning, putting my Wake Island QSO… Read more