DRR Atmospherics

Let's shackadelic. 73s.

Ham Nation Is Kilowatt

One is never late to a party and something kilowatt hot is happening in ham radio and it is called Ham Nation! I'm stoked. Ham Nation is exactly what ham radio needs. Thank you Bob Heil, K9EID, Gordon West, WB6NOA, and Leo Laporte, W6TWT.

Ham radio is shackadelic.

Beach Boys Await Hawai'i QSO Party 2011

Aloha!

The buzz in the Five Cities is Hawai'i QSO Party. The Beach Boys Amateur Radio Club likes a good party especially when the menu of activities gets aggro --

• KH6J operating from Bellows Beach.
• KH6CE Emergency Amateur Radio Club.
• KH7Q Kalawao County.
• KH6LC 'King Henry Six' from the Big Island of Hawaii and Lloyd's team of ionospheric surfers' AH6RE, NH6V, and KH7Y. 
• AL0HA Moku Island is a callsign for the computer logbook.
• KH6BB Battleship Missouri is ham radio fun.
• NH6YK Volcano Park is ham radio extreme.
• KH6CPU on Lanai Island is this the ever illusive QTH of the Lost Island DX Society? 
• K9FD/KH6 Molokai Island.

Mahalo, prop is up! 

Barbecue For Five Cities Ham Radio Operators

It can be said that an Alpha linear amplifier is not barbecuing our Santa Maria Tri-Tip tomorrow afternoon.  Instead, glowing red oak energized by wind will create a noise level neither roofing filter nor noise blanker could reduce or eliminate. The QRM is the kind that every ham radio operator understands and recognizes whenever one or more gather around a barbecue.

It is the splendid noise of yard width and it is the sound of ham radio operators chatting about their latest on-the-air exploit. We are gathering together, tomorrow afternoon at TK's QTH to celebrate yet another season of operating, yet another year of realized DXing dreams, yet another year of RadioSport victory.

It is a time of remembrance for those faint and faded signals still plying the ionosphere.

Hawaiian print shirts are optional and hope to see you in tomorrow's eyeball log.

Ham radio can be shackadelic.