KB5WIA Amateur Radio

Now that the weather has started to turn wet here in Northern California, operating with the portable satellite rig in my backyard is gettin...

This is a trip report from a mini satellite "DX-pedition" to the remote valleys in northern Death Valley National Park. The entire...

Tonight's contact on AO-51 was quite fun! Rather than use my usual sat setup (the twin FT-817ND's and Elk antenna) I took my older ...

In no particular order, here is a list of the ham radio satellites that I have used so far. There's definitely a learning curve for usi...

For anyone that's interested, here's a complete description of the set-up I'm using for my portable sat operation. This is what...

For the ARRL September VHF QSO Party contest, I used the FT-817ND QRP radio, the Elk Log Periodic 144/432 antenna, and a home-brew 50MHz dip...

Woohoo!! Yesterday I managed to make a nice 2-way QSO with one of the astronauts on the International Space Statin (ISS)! The ISS has a ha...