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How I Dealt with Power Outage 4/24/19

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Unexpected power outage While working on some websites while monitoring nets on HF, I experienced an unexpected power outage. I heard a loud pop from a transformer outdoors and lost my AC power at 10:40 a.m. Since all my computers, WI-FI router and radio were connected to APC Battery Backup power supplies, they continued to […]

Winter Field Day 2019

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While I did not compete for points in this years Winter Field Day, I did take advantage of the event to test out some of my off-grid radio operation gear. I operated from the comfort of my home (1HKS) but did not use any commercial power source to power my Icom 7300 radio. Since I […]