| Date | User | Challenge | Status | Toot summary & link |
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| 2025-02-08 09:20:53 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 6 | Success! | 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 15:06:28 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 8 | Progress 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 |
| 2025-02-24 06:47:33 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 8 | Success! | Welp I actually accidentally succeeded in #HC08S. Despite my stated goal of registering a protest fail to draw attention to hamβs lack of diversity. I posted a picture of W4ATCβs antenna farm at NC State on my LinkedIn page and a woman colleague said sheβd always wanted to do ham and asked about taking the exam. So I pointed her to hamstudy.org and my clubβs page on the subject and told her I was happy to help! https://www.rars.org/HowToBecomeAHam.php#HamChallenge #HamRadio @hamchallenge |
| 2025-02-25 22:41:22 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 4 | Success! | This toot is solely to get credit for previous #HC04S research under this dedicated ham account so all my points are tracked neatly under one username on hamchallenge.org. Sorry to be like that. π€¦ββοΈ https://triangletoot.party/@mike/113861108991608235 |
| 2025-02-26 12:49:27 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 10 | Progress update... | @peterdrake No, but I imagine a lot of people will be doing that for the first time next week. Squirting the birds is the #HamChallenge for week 10! Now that I have the proper idioms, I just need an antenna. #HC10 #amsat |
| 2025-03-01 22:18:49 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 8 | Success! | Aww, and now this from my dad, who is planning to move to the area. π₯² #hamchallenge #HC08S |
| 2025-03-19 04:14:45 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 51 | Progress update... | Well that would be counter productive!Don't worry, I've got my priorities in order. For the moment I'm experimeting with getting the most out of a Technician license during a solar cycle maximum. Planning to write about it and the problem of this hobby's startup costs for HC51.#HamChallenge #Technician #HC51 #SolarCycle25 #10meters |
| 2025-03-19 13:05:59 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 51 | Progress update... | Well that would be counter productive!Don't worry, I've got my priorities in order. For the moment I'm experimeting with getting the most out of a Technician license during an active solar cycle. Planning to write about it and the problem of this hobby's startup costs for HC51.#HamChallenge #Technician #HC51 #SolarCycle25 #10meters |
| 2025-04-01 21:42:06 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 51 | Progress update... | Really enjoyed this thorough presentation "Introduction to the QRP Labs QMX+ Transceiver" by @kp4md for the River City Amateur Radio Communications Society. https://youtu.be/l7s7_-zT2vQ?feature=shared&t=2710Carol, what would name the category of radios you discuss in the QMX geneology at 1:10:15? Low cost, independent manufacturer radios? I'm writing something for the week HC51 challenge and would like to cite your presentation. I'm writing about cost accessibility for #NewHams#QRPlabs #QMX+ #Ha |
| 2025-04-20 22:53:50 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 16 | Success! | Oh hey hey, looks like my first FT8 contact with K7CAR at Dixie National Park in Utah also successfully completes the Week 16 #HamChallenge: Make a contact with a xOTA station. HC16SThe synchronicity swings back in my direction. #HC16S #FT8 #HamRadio #Magic @hamchallenge |
| 2025-04-27 04:35:14 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 17 | Success! | This week's #HamChallenge: "Which VHF/UHF repeater is closest to your location?" The closest one is the first one I ever made contact on is the one run by my favorite college club, W4ATC at NC State. https://w4atc.ncsu.edu And I DID make a contact on it this week, while staring at its antenna farm from a parking deck where I was operating FT8 on 10m.The geolocation feature of the Repeaterbook app lists repeaters by distance. #HC17S https://hamchallenge.org/2025/17 |
| 2025-06-10 05:19:42 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 24 | Progress update... | Not a coder, so I'll use another path for #HC24. I'm thinking about making a donation.Thought #1: give to the software I've used almost every day since getting a digimode station up, WSJT-X.But it doesn't seem inventor Joe Taylor made it easy to donate! Not in software menus, not on his website, not in user guide, no mention in the groups.io archives. Thankful for his service!So I guess I'll move on to Thoughts #2 and #3...?!#HamRadio #WSJTX #DigiMode #K1JT #opensource @hamchallenge |
| 2025-06-10 23:11:44 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 24 | Progress update... | Welp, Thought 2 for #HC24 was to donate to #GridTracker since I've used that almost as much as WSJT-X, but N0TTL says "We are no longer accepting donations. Thank you to those that did, it really helped when we needed it the most!" - https://gridtracker.org/index.php/donateOn their Discord, N0TTL elaborates: "donations lead to demands. π" So onto Thought #3 which is actually the most interesting. But I'm very thankful for such a generous software development community!#HamChallenge #HamRadio |
| 2025-06-11 05:12:22 | K3LOE@mastodon.radio | 24 | Success! | I'm now happy to bring this tiny #HamChallenge effort to a successful conclusion after 2 failed attempts!Also happy to get creative on this one by contributing a donation to @OpenResearchIns, an "Exemplar of Open Research and Development."In addition open source values and projects, their leadership on #219MHz, with an explainer + call to action + compelling expert public comment, gives me a lot of confidence.https://www.openresearch.institute/2025/04/01/fcc-filing-for-219-mhz-rules-changes-from |