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Sorry I’ve been MIA lately. Between trying to stay dug out of snow and some medical problems I’m having I haven’t been putting much content up. Hopefully things will get better over the next couple months.

I was recently invited to take part in an annual adventure that a friend and mentor conducts every winter and I was excited to be able to take part. The plan was to take a few days to snow shoe into the mountains in western Montana to an off grid cabin, practicing winter survival skillsContinue reading “Cold Weather Skills: Mountain Snowshoe Adventure AAR”

There is a STU (read Enemies Foreign and Domestic) operating in the US destroying our food processing plants https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/the-terrorist-attacks-on-americas

For the off-grid field radio operator with limited weight & carrying capacity, what antenna options do we have? Actually, quite a few! Let’s talk about smaller, lighter, and more efficient antenna options. Hello Operators.For the past few years, I have been guilty of choosing the most rugged antenna options available. At some point, reducing sizeContinue reading “Man-Portable HF Antenna strategy”

There’s been substantial progress made on the OTA Micro-Blogging concept.Paul Offord has made a python utility that integrates with JS8Call through its TCP/UDP API. The following playlist has my original concept and the Proof of Concept videos of Paul’s Python utility running with JS8Call.Paul says the Python code, and a more detailed description of theContinue reading “OTA Micro-Blogging concept update”