Category Archives: Portable

K-5589: Attempting rare POTA activation Tuesday

Posted on February 23, 2020 by Thomas Witherspoon

If you’re involved with the Parks On The Air program, you may be interested in a park I plan to activate on Tuesday, February 25, 2020. I plan to activate K-5589, Seneca State Forest in West Virginia. I thought I’d … Continue reading →

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Initial impressions of the ALT-512 QRP transceiver

Posted on September 23, 2019 by k4swl

(Note: This is a cross-post from my other radio blog, the SWLing Post.) So the ALT-512 QRP SDR transceiver has landed at SWLing Post HQ. This little rig is on loan from Aerial-51 and I’ll be spending the next month … Continue reading →

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Icom Introduces the IC-705 portable QRP transceiver

Posted on September 1, 2019 by k4swl

Note: this is a cross-post from our other radio blog, the SWLing Post. This weekend at Tokyo’s Ham Fair 2019, Icom announced an innovative transceiver to their line-up: the Icom IC-705 QRP transceiver. The IC-705 introduces several industry firsts for … Continue reading →

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The Discovery TX-500 QRP Transceiver

Posted on June 25, 2019 by k4swl

Please note: This is a cross-post from our other radio site, the SWLing Post. Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Vlad, who shares some images and a video of a new QRP transceiver in development: the Discovery TX-500 by a … Continue reading →

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The CommRadio CTX-10 has landed

Posted on October 10, 2018 by k4swl

[Note: This is a cross post from my other radio blog, the SWLing Post.] Yesterday, UPS delivered a much-anticipated package: the CTX-10 QRP transceiver from CommRadio. CommRadio dispatched this loaner CTX-10 for evaluation and I’m excited to get my hands … Continue reading →

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The uBITX Transceiver: An Update

Posted on December 7, 2017 by k4swl

Many thanks to Pete Eaton (WB9FLW) who shares the following post: Last March Ashhar Farhan VU2ESE the designer of the very popular BITX20 and BITX40 series of mono-band HF Transceivers announced a new low cost Rig called the uBITX (micro BITX) … Continue reading →

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NPOTA: Photos from weekend “two-fer” activation of TR10 and PK01

Posted on September 19, 2016 by k4swl

[This post was originally published on my other radio blog, The SWLing Post] As I mentioned in a previous post, what I love about the National Parks On The Air program is that it combines two of my favorite things: … Continue reading →

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NPOTA: Activating the Carl Sandburg Home (NS07) today

Posted on September 8, 2016 by k4swl

This afternoon (September 8), I should have a chance to activate the Carl Sandburg Home again for the ARRL National Parks on the Air program. You might recall, I activated the site Sunday as well. I’ll plan to use the … Continue reading →

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NPOTA: Activating the Carl Sandburg home (NS07) today

Posted on September 4, 2016 by k4swl

I am planning to activate the Carl Sandburg Home (NS07) for National Parks on the Air today. I should start sometime between UPDATE (17:00-18:00) UTC and operating for about one hour. I’ll be SSB/QRP on 14286 and possibly 7286 kHz … Continue reading →

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National Parks On The Air (NPOTA) activations today

Posted on May 19, 2016 by k4swl

En route to the 2016 Dayton Hamvention, I’m doing a few National Parks On The Air (NPOTA) activations with my my buddy, Eric (WD8RIF). Eric is currently the number one activator in the state of Ohio. NPOTA is a great … Continue reading →

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