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POTA from US-1467 New Glarus Woods State Park, Wisconsin

Well, here we go. An actual edited video of the contacts that I made from New Glarus Woods State Park in Wisconsin this weekend. It was also Museum Ships Weekend so I got some of those too, including the USS Wisconsin

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Thinking about workflows and directions

I was thinking about how I want to use this site. I was wondering if I should convert to Hugo, or one of the other static generators, assuming I could keep ActivityPub functionality. But then I remembered that there is an Android app for WordPress. And someone has already built a wp to org converter, so I could pull posts back into emacs for editing and archiving.

That could be a very handy feature as I want to use this site to document ham radio activities like POTA, contests, projects, whatever. That does make me think that I should just point nm9o.com here as well, because I think I can be honest enough with myself that I probably won’t keep two sites active.

So, I guess I am saying that this is going to be an eclectic collection of things that I find interesting. Networking, emacs, Linux, BSD, ham radio, World of Warcraft, Diablo 4, python, wood working, electronics, and a bunch of other topics will all be fair game.

First uBITX QSO

Just had my first QSO on the uBITX! Got a 53 signal report from Buescher State Park, southeast of Austin, TX. 984 miles. I don’t know my exact power output, but the uBITX maxes out at 10W on 80M, on 20M I was probably at about 4W output power.

First POTA Activation

First POTA activation completed! K-1467 New Glarus Woods State Park. 143 contacts on 20 & 40 meters.