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The final stop on my Amateur Radio speed run was getting my Extra. I did. I read through the ARRL Extra Class License Manual, and kept using the excellent Android apps by Roy Watson. Extra is a lot harder, and I feel like I bit off more analog circut design than I was comfortable with just reading a book. I would have learned a lot more if I had gone through the book with an oscilliscope on a bench handy. [Read more]

I passed my General. I’m excited because I had a chance to learn a whole lot more about what happens inside an ionosphere where everyone is crowded inside a tiny little hat. That’s pretty cool. I like learning about the constraints and how folks coordinate! I used the ARRL book to study, practice and pass. I also used the Android apps by Roy Watson to confirm and self-test what I learned. [Read more]

Howdy, I’m a distributed systems software engineer located in the Tehachapi Mountains of California [DM05rb]. I first attempted to get into amateur radio in the 90’s, but never got around to actually getting a license, and got sucked into the internet industry instead 1. Through the years, however, I have kept up on using unlicensed and commercially licensed spectrum, and in general, similarly aligned tools and protocols in both professional and hobbyist settings. [Read more]