Josef "Jeff" Sipek

Successful VHF (and higher bands) contest operating is a bit different from what you may have seen in HF contests or at Field Day.

A little over five and a half years ago, I wrote about retiring Guilt.

This is a guest post by my wife, Holly.

This post has been written in Markdown.

A week ago, I participated in a 242 km bike ride from Bedford to the Harpoon Brewery in Windsor.

First, a little bit of history… Many years ago, I tried various phone apps for recording my bike rides.

I had this draft around for over 5 years—since January 2019.

Late last summer I decided to do a simple experiment—feed my server a PPS signal that wasn’t synchronized to any timescale.

A recent upgrade of FreeBSD on my desktop resulted in just about every program (Firefox, KiCAD, but thankfully not urxvt) rendering various ligatures even for monospaced fonts.

Yesterday, I saw KM1NDY’s blog post titled Scribbled Antenna Blueprints.

There is already a number of different fox hunting designs out there—both commercial and hobbyist built.

This post is about a fox hunt organized by the Bristol County Repeater Association in September 2022.

I am a happy user of 1/4 wave verticals and hamsticks, but I’ve been thinking that I should look into another antenna type to add to my bag of tricks when I go out to do a POTA/WWFF activation.

In the late 90s, I messed a little bit with electronics but I stopped because I got interested in programming.

This post is about two of the fox hunts organized by the Bristol County Repeater Association in 2021.