Getting Started with Amateur Radio Repeaters

After this month’s licensing exam, the VEs had two handouts. One was a printout with a bunch of useful info and links to ARRL-affiliated clubs, …

License upgrade

On Monday, I took the exam to upgrade to a General class license. I’ve now ticked off one of my 2026 goals.

I have not actually spent much time …

So that’s where the “mobile” comes from

I wasn’t entirely certain where the “mobile” portion of the Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club’s name came from. I guess I had …

Spring POTA Fest

Touching grass

The Phil-Mont Mobile Radio Club does Parks on the Air throughout the year, but the last weekend in March was the Spring POTA Fest at …

Goals for 2026

I earned my Technician’s license last month and since then I’ve accomplished a few minor ham-related things:

• Immediately got on the air …

Brief thoughts on so-called AI

tl;dr

Anything you read on this website is written by me, a human person. I don’t use so-called AI tools. No generative AI, no LLMs, no ChatGPT, …

Argh

When last I posted, I was discussing the upcoming—and doubtless straightforward—process of getting this site actually online. The local …

Adventures with Hugo

Introduction

I’ve had a number of different websites—handcoded (pre-CSS), self-hosted Movable Type and WordPress, hosted WordPress, idle …

First post

Sometime in 2024, a person I follow on social media mentioned they were considering getting a ham radio license. This was a direct reaction to recent …