Solar Weather: Its Surprising Impact on Radio Communication and Technology
Ever faced weird glitches with your GPS or radio signals and wondered what's up? Well, sometimes the answer comes from about 93 million...
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Deanna Rose
Jan 32 min read
Staying Connected During Storms: The Role of Amateur Radio in Emergency Communication
When I finally found time to indulge my love of astronomy, I wanted to learn more about radio telescopes and radio astronomy. I found...
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Deanna Rose
Oct 9, 20232 min read
The antenna is up!
Over the weekend I finally got the new antenna up for my repeater setup! I had ordered a Tram Amateur Dual Band Base Antenna from Amazon...
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Deanna Rose
Aug 9, 20231 min read
EchoLink Repeater Project-Got the radio!
One of the projects I wanted to complete this year is to set up my own EchoLink repeater. I know I should've written out a roadmap or at...
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Deanna Rose
Sep 20, 20221 min read
Achievement Unlocked-Vanity Call Sign!
Because I'm an absolute nerd, I wanted to get a vanity call sign-basically change my call sign from the randomly generated call sign from...
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Deanna Rose
Sep 12, 20221 min read
Mobile Radio Setup
I'm one of those weirdos who'll spend excessive amounts of money cobbling something together rather than just buying the thing outright....
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Deanna Rose
Sep 9, 20221 min read
Sending out my first QSL cards!
Since getting my ham radio license, I've made a total of 3 contacts (I've been busy with work and preparing for my move in November)....
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Deanna Rose
Sep 3, 20221 min read
First Contact!
I headed out to my mom's Saturday to try to use my Baofeng UV-5R to make my first contact, but no luck. I even connected to some local...
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Deanna Rose
Aug 31, 20221 min read
FCC legal!
As of this morning, I've been assigned a call sign by the FCC (KI5WWR) and am now legal to transmit on ham radio! However, I'm a picky...
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Deanna Rose
Aug 28, 20221 min read
Achievement Unlocked: Technician Exam Passed!
So I've been radio silent (pun intended) for the past couple of weeks, but not for nothing. Besides my heavy workload, I've been studying...
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Deanna Rose
Aug 9, 20221 min read
Live Oak Observatory?!?
So this is me just being a nerd, and Live Oak Observatory is just what I call my mom's house (she loves her live oak trees!). She has...
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Deanna Rose
Aug 3, 20221 min read
Let's see what I can do with this thing...
It looks like a circuit board with a coax connector, but it's really an Isometric Helical Antenna, 2.4Ghz-5.8Ghz Circularly Polarized...
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