#ARRL is no longer worthy of your trust.

It's not malice, it's sheer incompetence. The Board needs to resign, en masse, after firing the paid staff. Or at least fire the $350k/yr "CEO" - they may need to leave a message for him as he's likely out showing houses.

Go to arrl.org, log in using the poorly-implemented "personify go" interface, go to your settings, and delete any "saved credit cards" you may have there.

https://epistolary.org/@vees/114670832271522282

@N4JAW I got to the park a little after 1 pm and made 41 CW contacts in an hour and 45 minutes.

Just worked the four #POTA stations on 40-meter CW. #hamraddio

@N4JAW Going out tomorrow morning with a couple of ham friends. I hope the bands are as good tomorrow.

Cartoon by Mike Ramirez.

@KI7CFO I think either antenna should work pretty well. For POTA, I use a 66-ft. doublet, operated as an inverted V, fed with 300-ohm twin lead. I'm running 15 W from a KX3, and I make lots of contacts.

@arth QSYed to 40 meters and made two contacts on my first two CQs. Go figure.

@arth 30 meters is dead, even though I'm getting decent spots on RBN and the German RTTY station, DDK9, is relatively strong here.

Learned about the defunct Monitoring Times magazine recently. I really like Publisher Bob Grove’s All About Antennas collection. Lots of practical and specific advice useful for new hams. Like this, about operating inside and losses due to particular sources and materials. http://www.monitoringtimes.com/antennabook.pdf

#antennas #NewHams #W8JHD

@HopelessDemigod @VE2UWY Well, you only had 8 replies, and I would have voted Icom had I seen this earlier.

@rose_alibi I love saving plants like that. Nice work!

@n8dmt @NO5IG Every three or four years, someone comes out with a "revolutionary" antenna design, but for some reason they never seem to gain any traction, aside perhaps, for some very niche application. This seems like that kind of thing to me.

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@HopelessDemigod @N1ZZZ @HopelessDemigod @N1ZZZ I've gotten maybe a half dozen QSLs like that one. Honestly, I just ignore these email QSLs from QSLWLD.Com. My opinion is that if they really wanted a QSL, they would send me a real QSL card.

@NilaJones @W6KME @Geojoek @bitsplusatoms Don't feel bad about that at all. I'd guess that at least half of the questions you can only get right if you memorize the answer.

How Radio Carried the News of D-Day: Broadcasts from June 6, 1944

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#DDay #DDayNews #InternetArchive #WWII #WWIIArchives

@w7voa I heard that this library will be home to both of the books he's read.

@W6KME @Geojoek @bitsplusatoms Same here. When I teach a Tech class, I tell the students when a question is out-of-date or just silly. The problem, as I see it, is that the two or three hams at the NCVEC that actually write the questions don't really want to give up the power, but they either don't have the time to do it right or don't have the capability of doing it right.

@tsherrygeo What would be some good pun names? One that just occurred to me is "Hallowed Grounds."

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