Hojo's Ham Blog

  I was shocked to discover that, by default, my Predator 9000 generator bonds the Neutral and Ground together... Well, not ACTUALLY shocke...

    Two-Way Lora Signal Booster Comparisons As part of the Alpha Cubesat project at Cornell, we want to set up a "TinyGS" ground s...

     I was working on another of our passel of Alinco DR-1200T's.   This one is our spare radio which I recapped, aligned (as best I cou...

 So, I was testing out my new POTA Monster setup before I took it to the field.     The audio reports I got were not great.  One friendly ha...

 So, I've gotten more interested in POTA activations, recently.  I had a lot of fun with my first activation in the Spring.  I bought my...

We seem to have a fleet of Alinco DR-1200T's kicking around.  The local APRS expert uses them, along with a TNC, for APRS nodes in the a...

I own a few Kenwood TM-D710 radios (one 710, and one 710G).  Both have been fairly sturdy workhorses, but recently, the D710 in my car start...