E D Skinner
Fiction, facts, and philosophy
Ed with Chinese lion statue, Wuhan China, Oct-Nov 2003

Amateur radio

Year Nine
Posts
1/1/23
Things I’ve always wanted to do, but …
Something Broke
Posts
4/28/21

A week of intermittent attempts at JT-8 on my ham radio failed to make any contacts. Not a single one.

JT-8 is computerized …

K7EDS for Another Ten Years
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8/14/19
Summits On The Air (SOTA)
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1/6/18

I earned my first SOTA points a week ago as an activator, and again this morning as a chaser. (My amateur radio call sign is …

Pixie Ears
Posts
10/9/17

The hearing of my Chinese Pixie is much better now.

Pixie is a ultra-minimal ham radio transceiver that started several …

QuartzFest 2016
Posts
1/26/16

I drove two hours west from Phoenix last Saturday to Quartzite, Arizona for the swapfest at the end of 2016’s week long …

K7EDS QSL Card
Posts
11/11/15

Why Mac?
Posts
10/26/15

Antenna Analysis (New Toy!)
Posts
7/29/15

Ok, Ok, you’re right. It’s a new toy and I wanted to show it off. You’re absolutely right. But I learned …

Flux Your Braid
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1/17/13