52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Status for K3LOE@mastodon.radio

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2025-02-08 09:20:53K3LOE@mastodon.radio6Success!The #HamChallenge this week: Do a contest.As a new ham, it's hard to imagine ever taking contests that seriously. I like that more people are on the air. I dislike communication as competition.Nevertheless I had fun doing my first not-a-contest recently: Winter Field Day 2025! I did all 8 highly contrived QSOs on VHF/UHF. I (unsuccessfully) activated a POTA spot and hunted (a successful) POTA activation. #WFD2025 #US2755 #simplex #POTA #HamContests #EmComm #portable #HC06S @hamchallenge
2025-02-20 15:06:28K3LOE@mastodon.radio8Progress update...As a new ham, it's clear why the hobby is mostly old white men. Even a simple lunchtime net is a potentially hostile environment. I had been thinking about that already because of this week's #HamChallenge to "Encourage someone to take their #HamRadio license exam." It's hard to encourage people to join a hobby where they'll have to endure this behavior. So #HC08 is an intentional fail for me this week. #DeathOfHamRadio
2025-02-22 14:12:34K3LOE@mastodon.radio8Progress update...Welp I actually accidentally succeeded in #HC08s. Despite my stated goal of registering a protest fail to draw attention to ham’s lack of diversity. I posted a picture of W4ATC’s antenna farm at NC State on my LinkedIn page and a woman colleague said she’d always wanted to do ham and asked about taking the exam. So I pointed her to hamstudy.org and my club’s page on the subject and told her I was happy to help with any questions! #HamChallenge #HamRadio @hamchallenge
2025-02-22 14:14:34K3LOE@mastodon.radio8Progress update...Welp I actually accidentally succeeded in #HC08s. Despite my stated goal of registering a protest fail to draw attention to ham’s lack of diversity. I posted a picture of W4ATC’s antenna farm at NC State on my LinkedIn page and a woman colleague said she’d always wanted to do ham and asked about taking the exam. So I pointed her to hamstudy.org and my club’s page on the subject and told her I was happy to help! https://www.rars.org/HowToBecomeAHam.php#HamChallenge #HamRadio @hamchallenge

Summary of completed challenges

✅: Completed (1)
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