NOAA Weather Internet Radio

 Welcome back to the blog. In today's entry, I am creating a project that further expands the reach of the NOAA Weather Radio system by utilizing the National Weather Service's free, tax-payer-funded API.

Revisiting the Kenwood TK-705

 A project I've wanted to do since I found out this radio isn't transmitting anymore. Can I bring this back into service as a useful APRS and/or 2 meter radio?

Well we'll see, because here are the fruits of over 2 years of brainstorming.

I was wrong

 So far I have been very wrong about 2026 severe weather-wise. Around northwest Missouri, it has been a VERY active and scary year. These past weeks alone just proves why.

ASL Success Part 3

This just keeps getting better and better! Love this thing already.

Antenna Fundamentals 101: NVIS: The Missing Link

Early on in my ham radio adventure (and still to this day), I was very frustrated with the fact that I could never do DX on 80 and 40 meters. I mean, wasn't the whole purpose of ham radio supposed to be how far you could be heard?

In the past few days, I realized that I had actually unlocked an HF cheat code all this time. I've been using the bands wrong. Here's how.