VE9KK Blog

 For the first time in a very long time, my radio shack is without an Elecraft product.  I was and still am a big Elecraft fan and had 2 Ele...

Last evening I finally had some time to get on the PC and check out what fellow ham radio bloggers were up too. For the past month I have...

The setup in the car The CHA P loop  On Saturday wife and I had some errands to do in the town we used to live in, it's about an...

An update from my last post regarding my Chameleon CHA P Loop antenna , the antenna bag zippers were repaired and the cost was 40.00 Canad...

I had some spare time today  and was able to get on the radio! Over the past month or so it has been lots of work and no time to play radio....

When I first opened the box I noticed it was packed very well and as I held the K-Pod for the first time I noticed it had some weight ...

It was a nice surprise that my wife purchased the Elecraft K-Pod for me for Christmas. I did get it a bit early as she wanted to make sure...

Hunting for that one contact In Canada it's the Thanksgiving long weekend and I thought I would add Friday as a vacation day to make...

View from the portable op's position.  It was another amazing day weather wise up this way and with winter soon coming I wanted to h...

The setup by the Lake  This past weekend the weather was great and the propagation seemed to be fair. So that meant it was time to t...

The bike all loaded up I had Friday off and it was a beautiful sunny day so it was time to take my KX3 out on the trail...

Win4kSuite up and running I have decided to change up my rig control software to Win4K3 suite I downloaded the trial version and was v...

The QRP setup I had a great part time effort in the CQ WW CW contest, I was not concerned with score or putting in a major amount to tim...

Back to life again It's time to solder in the new P30 and P35 headers into the K3 then put the rig together hold my breath and plug ...

It's time for the surgery Beware of other components  It was time to heat up the soldering iron, hold my breath and begin th...

It's time for some surgery. I contacted Elecraft to see what upgrades were available for my K3 and since my rig is not the 100 wat...

Over the past few weeks I had put some extra dust gathering ham gear up for sale. The sale was a successes and I ended up making 400.00 ha...

Oliver is asking……"Ahhhh dinner!!! I took part in the ARRL CW contest this weekend in a part time way, I was not able to go full t...