Updates

I'm a ham! KJ7SIL

My ham radio license was issued this week! I have a technician class license, and my callsign is KJ7SIL.

Now I need to figure out how to actually make a successful transmission. I have a two-meter handheld radio that I can receive a couple of the local repeaters, but I haven’t been able to key one of them up. Which either means that I have something misconfigured with my radio or it just doesn’t have enough power to reach the repeaters. Hopefully my dad - who is a very experienced ham - will be able to help me figure it out when he comes to visit.

State = Busy

I have been very busy, but that’s no excuse. I’m lowering the bar for things that deserve a blog post. This particular post will feature things I’ve been thinking about and doing.

Things that have happened

My sister and her kids came to visit a couple of weeks ago. It was a fun visit! Everything was made more complicated by COVID, but it all turned out OK.

I crashed my mountain bike on Sunday, which was not fun. It was one of the higher speed crashes I’ve had. My front tire washed out on a corner and I slid quite a ways, scraping up my knee (even though I was wearing knee pads) and somehow hurting my pinky, which has been the most debilitating result of the crash.