3/27/2023  Thinking a lot about the beginning of this web project. My friends Eric and Todd have spoke with me a bit about doing a rough draft prior to publishing anything.  Wise words I’d say because myself; being full forward will type directly into the editor without having filtered it at all.. I am going to try not to filter anything out but just keep it simple and honest.. Sometimes that is the best way to approach these things.  Since this is the very beginning there is absolutely no way to tell which direction this will go.  With an open mind and my heart on my sleeve I will just approach it with the same wonder and curiosity that I usually apply to everything, and see what it becomes
                                                                                                         ~73 Tim~

8/27/2023

Well here we are late august and again not all the antenna projects are finished yet. I think that is just normal now lol.. all the antenna projects are ongoing and may never be completely finished. I spent most of the summer working on my CW skills and I volunteered to do the POTA meet up for the club coming up September 9th at Bear Brook State park in the afternoon… Tonight though we are doing a foxhunt as a club and Eric N1JUR is running it..His daughter Emma is an amateur radio operator and she is going to be the fox and we are going to try to locate her in Bedford.. Looking forward to this one and Eric lent me his elk antenna to use..

73

~Tim

3/28 Check out Winter field day fun from 2023. I am so grateful for all my ham radio buddies we had a lot of fun camping out on Mikes farm..

3/29/2023 Another Wednesday morning I love Wednesday it is the day we do FT-8 Bingo with the club. I also go out to breakfast with my friends from my Ham radio club. The place we go is called Pressed in Bedford NH and the food is really great and all the workers there know us now and are all very nice.

Friday, March 31, 2023

Friday at last the weekend is here.  Usually on Friday I am the Net control for my club; Granite State Amateur Radio Associations’ nightly net.  So many great friends and nice fellow amateur radio operators join in and we talk about radio and how we spent our days and ask and answer questions talk about current events.  Usually on Friday I am thinking how lucky we are to all have each other and what a great way to end your day talking with friends all together on the radio.

~73

Tim

4/4/2023
Typing directly into the editor again like a crazy person. Our club moved the VE sessions to the police station in Bedford. I may stop by and see if I can score some coffee and doughnuts :) better get there early if I want some doughnuts though hi hi

I am planning on making another YouTube video soon about using the echo dot as a CW trainer. Alexa seems to be very helpful with that. I think I also will change the wake name to Computer when I do it so that if anyone watches my video I will not awake their alexa. Tomorrow is Wednesday and I get to have breakfast with my Ham Buddies again. I always look forward to that.

~73
Tim

4/1/2023

Back to typing directly into the editor. I am sure this is not the last time I will do it this way. Sometimes a rough draft keeps me in a good place and sometimes I just gotta ape it into the web. I tried to the Straight Key Century Clubs slow speed saunter today… barely anyone calling CQ I did not wanna be number one, maybe next time I will summon the strength and tap out a QSL. I am going to try again next month and maybe that will be the time..
~73
Tim

4/15/2023

Did I mention I joined a radio club, Namely The Granite State Amateur Radio Association. Last night we had our monthly meeting at the Bedford High School Library. Typically at our meetings we have a guest speaker who will talk on various aspects of our hobby. Last night we had a couple of speakers who discussed the M-17 project. If you have not heard of this it is an up and coming open source digital mode for amateur radio. I included a link above if you would like to do some reading on this mode. I always enjoy our meetings and my friend Bill who is also our club president always does a wonderful job choosing a speaker for us.

~73
Tim

4/22/2023 Saturday

I love Saturday morning getting ready to go to the barn and meet with my radio club, my friends and fellow enthusiasts. I snapped this photo of the isotron antenna 40 and 80 meter I built and dummy mounted in the back yard. The reason I originally bought it was because of a rookie mistake I made doing digital modes. I did not realize all the FT-8 and the such was on USB and my old Kenwood did not auto switch the mode to the correct one so I thought I was not receiving any signals. Welp after fingering it out turns out I did not need this antenna but still thought it was pretty cool for anyone like me who lives in the city and has to think vertically.. I linked the photo to a pretty decent article about the antenna if you would like to read more..

~ 73 ~
Tim

VOTA W1AW/1 Operation

4/25/2023 This year the ARRL is having year of the volunteer celebrating amateur radio operators around the country. I am participating by volunteering to operate as a special event station on Sunday April 30th 2023 for two hours I will operate on 20 meters from 10-noon. looking forward to participating.

~73~

Tim

5/28/2023

Memorial day weekend. We had some fun activating Northwood Meadows state park.. Looking forward to doing more park activations in the future.. Field day is rapidly approaching. I am in charge of the food again this year. thinking about the menu and how to make it great for everyone coming… Typing directly into the blog block again lol guess it just happens..

73

~Tim~

6/17/2023 Saturday

Looking forward to field day this year my Friend Eric is heading up the activities I am thankful for him being so active. I volunteered to do the food again I am hoping if I cover that it will give more folks a chance to operate and not have to think about what they are going to eat :)

Mike was gracious enough to allow us to use his property to set up operations. also for july I volunteered to operate as K2K NH in the thirteen colonies event. Looking forward to all these fun activities this summer..

73
~Tim

6/22/2023

Field day this weekend really looking forward to having fun setting up remote stations and I am going to provide food services for everyone who is participating. its going to be fun I am going to try to put up a copy of this years menu and lots of photos.
~73
Tim

6/26/2023

Field day 2023 is over we had so much fun setting up in the field. The guys and girls in our club had a lot of fun and the food went swimmingly. I am so happy to be involved with such a great group got to do some operating this year made a bunch of FT-8 contacts and got to sit in with Tom who is a world class CW operator.. I am learning and hoping next year to be able to make some morse code contacts.
Special thanks to Eric N1JUR for doing such a great job organizing us for field day..

~73
Tim

7/8/2023 I made 341 contacts for the K2K Team.

13 Colonies Special Event Station completed

1/29/2024

I have always been a fan of MAD Magazine. I love to just keep things

random and fun in here..

5/17/2024

I volunteered to be on the communication team for the Pack 10 miler road race this coming weekend.

Looking forward to the experience and also looking forward to volunteering for future events.

5/19/2024

Writing directly into the editor again ha ha fun day helping on the communications team at the pack 10, Very positive experience and lots of fun.

6/4/2024

My Niece Isabella who is 8 years old went to the park with my Nephew Julian and I. I gave her a FRS radio and we were playing walkie talkie until the GSARA nightly net was about to begin. (1900 sharp) Saturday is always a fun Net we have a question or a “Tale From the Dump” HI HI. Isabella memorized my call sign and with me present (of course) checked into the nightly net, introduced herself and answered the weekly question about whether or not you had been to a Yard Sale or not. She had so much fun and at the end she said 73 and Over just like a pro. After the Net my friend Jeanne (KC1SPX) chit chatted a bit with her and she was absolutely thrilled another girl was on the radio too. My friend Bill, the net controller, was very accommodating and even told Isabella what a great job she did.. I am so grateful and happy about small moments like this they add to the fun of this great hobby and I am sure Isabella and I are going to have future radio fun up and coming. Below I will put a photo of the FRS walkie talkies we were using.

73

Tim

KC1QDK

7\21\2024

Great day with Code buddy friends yesterday, we set up at Derryfield park up in Manchester for Support your parks weekend to make CW contacts. I loved that we all had been practicing for a while and finally all got together and put it into practice trying to get on the air and make some contacts. I find when a bunch of us get together we all learn from each other one thing or another and you never know everything, there is always something else we can learn from one another.

73

Tim

KC1QDK

8/4/2024

Testing the Buddipole antenna in the park for 6meters.

Pulled a permit from the city to drive up to the Weston tower and do a 6 meter net looking forward to that adventure

73

KC1QDK

Tim

12/12/2024

Kim and I went camping over the weekend and did the 160 meter contest and boy was it a lot of fun I will tell you. I made my first 160 meter contact as a matter of fact I made a bunch of them. submitted my log for the ARRL 160 contest and activated Mount Monadnock state park. 3 days in a row on 160 meters.

73

Tim

KC1qdk

2/18/2025

Kim and I have started going through the process of becoming volunteers at the local hospitals for ARES. CMC and Elliot hospital both have radio rooms where we can go and operate and practice emergency radio communications. looking forward to this new endeavor. the process is pretty thorough but we are almost through.

ARES Emergency training testing a new repeater in less than ideal weather conditions. I set up the V71A on battery power with a Diamond antenna on a tripod for each of our assigned locations and we then had to try to check in and give a count so that other members could record how well they were receiving us.

2/20/2024

As usual typing directly into the editor, lol

I got my United States worked all fifty states award. This one took three years and the last two were Alaska and Hawaii I finally got them sequentially last weekend