Beach Boys Amateur Radio Club (BBARC)

Surfing radio waves is fun especially when propagation is up and the sunspot swell is pumpin' toward Earth. Please welcome, Jeff Murray, K1NSS to the merry band of ham radio operators. Our sole purpose is to ride radio waves albeit high frequency, very high frequency, or ultra high frequencies. 

Ham radio is shackadelic.

My #hamr Weekend Update

Did anyone operate this weekend because the CW sub-band was awfully
quiet? I bet it was an uptick in the A- and K-index as geomagnetic
conditions are unsettled. Why does this always happen on the weekend
after hearing about stellar conditions throughout the work week?

I logged one Q during the Missouri QSO Party and conditions went flat
with absolutely zero propagation swell on 15 or 10 meters. I didn't
hear a peak signal anywhere.

On the other hand, my LoTW attachment arrived and I successfully
downloaded its code unlocking my certificate. I uploaded two years of
logging data into the system then synched DXKeeper with the Newington
master central processing unit. One thousand three hundred credits
populated my logging database.

The result is Worked All States first 50 all CW and my LoTW DXCC
jumped from 24 to 64 confirmed. I'm stoked.

I'm hanging out with Radio Dawg this afternoon while writing my entry
from the couch using my Droid mobile device. It wasn't an off the hook
ham radio weekend rather one spent taking care of administrative
detail like verifying my LoTW credits.

Turn on, tune up, and operate.

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