Frank Loesser’s 1944 song, Baby, It’s Cold Outside, was number one on the Hit Parade in Mayersville, MS during last Saturday’s Mississippi QSO Party. We were guests of Mayor Shorter and permitted to use Russell Park there for our planned morning outing to activate the rare Issaquena County. I had organized the first outing for […]
Portable Ops for 2018 MS QSO Party
The 15th Mississippi QSO Party will be here soon, April 7, 2018. This year, I’ve assembled a small team to activate two rare counties and two very rare grid squares. We plan to work the morning to early afternoon local time in Issaquena County and the afternoon to evening in Sharkey County. The details on […]
This One’s Got It All…
To engage in public media about amateur radio, we’ve got several formats: a website, an audio podcast, a video podcast, a live broadcast via the web, and radio broadcast over one or more stations. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to serve as US Correspondent on the famous ICQPodcast produced by Martin & […]
Coming home…
Having inherited a portable SW rig that I knew I would not use, I began to look around as to what to do with it. It was broken in two essential sections but they were supposedly easy to repair. I just didn’t have the energy to tackle it! Nursing five fractured ribs back to health and […]