On my 51st year as a ham. Recently has been great to resume my old passions of building antennas. Rediscovered my cw skills in time for field day this summer and now practicing to get my speed back up higher than ever. Exploring #WSPR, #APRS, #Emcomm, microcontrollers, and fun with weather balloons, which started at age 12 with Balsa wood and dry cleaner bags and birthday candles and WN9MRB, but that is another story. Glad to be here and looking forward to making friends

@jasonemiller I've made electronic #hamradio #gokits using https://tiddlywiki.com/ as the "homepage" and #knowledgemanagement. I also use https://portableapps.com/ for some of the #emcomm #app

New blog post:

#HurricaneFedi after-action report

https://ae4wx.net/2023/09/07/after-action-report-hurricanefedi/

#AmateurRadio #Disaster #EmComm #EmergencyCommunication #Preparedness

#Hurricane Watch Net is active on 14.325MHz USB at this time. I’m actually listening to it on 14.323MHz USB using a Tecsun S-2000 indoors with the internal telescoping antenna + a 12ft clip-on wire extension. #HurricaneWatchNet #AmateurRadio #hamr #EMCOMM #HurricaneIdalia #KE0FFTwx

We are approaching the peak of #hurricane season in the Atlantic, and there are a lot of us new to #JS8Call.

Might it not be a good idea to do a hurricane drill so we can practice messaging in JS8Call? Could also incorporate #APRS & #Winlink.

I suggest this Sunday. We all pretend we have no power Internet and we pass drill traffic to each other.

Anybody in?

It's important that any traffic we send would be clearly marked as DRILL DRILL DRILL.

#HurricaneFedi #Emcomm #AmateurRadio

Downside of the #hamradio folks here in my county: lots of stress chattering on the #repeaters about their personal experience, with no breaks if there were emergency radio traffic. No net control. #emcomm #earthquake

Our quarterly, in-person meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, at the Allen County Public Library, 900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne. The focus will be a "go kit" show and tell. #HamRadio #ARES #EmComm #EmergencyCommunication

#introduction We are the Allen County, Indiana team of the @arrl Amateur Radio Emergency Service. We just migrated from mastodon.radio when we learned that mastodon.hams.social is more local to us. Our leaders plan to use this account to communicate about team activities, including #Skywarn net activation. #ARES #EmComm #EmergencyCommunication #EmergencyPreparedness #EmergencyManagement #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #SevereWeather #SevereWX #publicservice

#introduction We are the Allen County, Indiana team of the @arrl Amateur Radio Emergency Service. Our leaders, emergency coordinator KB9WWM and assistant emergency coordinator @w9lw plan to use this account to communicate about team activities, including #Skywarn net activation. #ARES #EmComm #EmergencyCommunication #EmergencyPreparedness #EmergencyManagement #HamRadio #AmateurRadio #SevereWeather #SevereWX #publicservice

Petit QSO en mode #varac avec @f4iog #hamrafii #radioamateur #emcom #emcomm

Really cool drone shot of the top of the 200ft monopole tower hosting the N4CEC-10 VHF Winlink gateway's antenna.

There is a tower climb team on-site for the periodic tower inspection/maintenance so the node is going offline while the team is aloft.

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #Winlink #Emcomm

Hello world from FN42! Thank you, @M0YNG, for approving me! As far as ham activities, I’m into #aprs #ares #emcomm #skywarn #pota #sota #ft8 #dmr #GMRS

Many of us still remember how afraid we were to ask an experienced operator to stop whatever they were doing and allow us to make come contacts, or how difficult it was to overcome mic fright; We have reserved time on each stations for exclusive use by workshops participants, with no pressure to "make points", and with support from experienced operators.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNCf07OKGG4
#fieldday #fieldday2023 #arrlfieldday #2023fieldday #emcomm

As each year, Vienna Wireless Society will hold their Field Day at the Burke Lake Park, in Fairfax Station, VA.
As each year, we're going to have great food and a lot of fun.
What's new this year, are workshops for new hams.
#fieldday #fieldday2023 #arrlfieldday #2023fieldday #emcomm

Looks like #hamradio #amateurradio #arrlfd2023 participants will get a real chance to test out their #emergencycommunications #emcomm skills this weekend with #tropicalstorm #bret
https://twitter.com/N4JAW/status/1670912017283141633?t=-Hp-Zk-dRuw2lqQCJA6T3Q&s=09

FediFridayWinlinkNet is this Friday, June 2. HAPPENING NOW!

I'll be your net control this week.

To check in, please send your #Winlink message as follows:

-Friday 2 Jun between 0000Z-2359Z
-Addressed to AE4WX
-Subject: FFWN
-Message body line1: [callsign], [firstname], [city], [state/province/locale], [country], [mastodon username] [VhF/HF/APRS/Telnet]
-Message body line2: whatever.  Surprise me!

Please boost!

#FFWN  
#hamradio
#AmateurRadio​
#EmergencyCommunication​
#EmComm​

FediFridayWinlinkNet is this Friday, June 2.

I'll be your net control this week.

To check in, please send your #Winlink message as follows:

-Friday 2 Jun between 0000Z-2359Z
-Addressed to AE4WX
-Subject: FFWN
-Message body line1: [callsign], [firstname], [city], [state/province/locale], [country], [mastodon username] [VhF/HF/APRS/Telnet]
-Message body line2: whatever.  Surprise me!

Please boost!

#FFWN  
#hamradio
#AmateurRadio​
#EmergencyCommunication​
#EmComm​

FediFridayWinlinkNet is this Friday, June 2.

I'll be your net control this week.

To check in, please send your #Winlink message as follows:

-Friday 2 Jun between 0000Z-2359Z
-Addressed to AE4WX
-Subject: FFWN
-Message body line1: [callsign], [firstname], [city], [state/province/locale], [country], [mastodon username] [VhF/HF/APRS/Telnet]
-Message body line2: whatever. Surprise me!

Please boost!

#FFWN  
#hamradio
#AmateurRadio​
#EmergencyCommunication​
#EmComm​

FediFridayWinlinkNet is happening now!

I'll be your net control this week.

To check in, please send your #Winlink message as follows:

-Friday 19 May between 0000Z-2359Z
-Addressed to AE4WX
-Subject: FFWN
-Message body line1: [callsign], [firstname], [city], [state/province/locale], [country], [mastodon username] [VhF/HF/APRS/Telnet]
-Message body line2: year licensed

Please boost!

#FFWN  
#hamradio
#AmateurRadio​
#EmergencyCommunication​
#EmComm​

FediFridayWinlinkNet is this Friday, May 19. Starting in a few miniutes!!

I'll be your net control this week.

To check in, please send your #Winlink message as follows:

-Friday 19 May between 0000Z-2359Z
-Addressed to AE4WX
-Subject: FFWN
-Message body line1: [callsign], [firstname], [city], [state/province/locale], [country], [mastodon username] [VhF/HF/APRS/Telnet]
-Message body line2: year licensed

Please boost!

#FFWN
#hamradio
#AmateurRadio​
#EmergencyCommunication​
#EmComm​