52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Status for mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info

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2025-01-05 16:16:56mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info1Success!Although I am waiting for sample stock to arrive to decide which stock to use for my order, I believe I have a complete design (even if I further improve it later) so I'll count this as #HC01S completed.Like @stu I started the design this past fall, but completed it during the challenge week.
2025-01-09 00:06:40mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info2Progress update...#HC02 I tried listening around dusk while watching what beacons should be transmitting. I couldn't copy any call signs, and I mostly heard noise. I heard occasional gusts of code that might have been the following stations, or might have all been my imagination...From FM05 starting around 22:45Z:14.1 CS3B? 4U1UN-? RR90?18.11 OA4B? 4U1UN-?21.15 VE8AT-? RR90? ZS6DN?24.93 VE8AT?28.2 nothingIf any of those station IDs is wrong please blame autocarrot.Given that I couldn't actually copy any IDs I thi
2025-01-20 18:08:26mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info4Success!I find no records of my #AmateurRadio KZ4LY call sign having previously been issued. I don't see any digital records of it, and the last callbook has no KZ prefix call signs issued in any way. I know mine was regularly sequentially allocated (not as a vanity call sign); KZ4LN @stu upgraded to amateur extra and changed to an extra-only call sign about a week before I was licensed. KZ4AA was granted as a vanity sign on 15 February 2022 with no indications I find of a prior owner; KZ4AB was granted
2025-01-20 23:44:11mcdanlj@social.makerforums.info4Progress update...Anyone in the US having trouble tracking down the history of your call sign for #HC04 here are lots of details to help:https://www.w2zq.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Finding-your-ham-roots.pdf

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