Custom Batteries, SOTA Campouts, and Mark's Car-tastrophe

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Sofas on the Air

Mark and Ara

8 episodes

1 day ago

Ham radio talk about Summits on the Air... but from a sofa. There are sometimes guests, and beverages.

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Ham radio talk about Summits on the Air... but from a sofa. There are sometimes guests, and beverages.

Hobbies

Leisure

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Custom Batteries, SOTA Campouts, and Mark's Car-tastrophe

Sofas on the Air

1 hour 56 minutes 5 seconds

2 months ago

Custom Batteries, SOTA Campouts, and Mark's Car-tastrophe

Umesh KK6TXI visits the Sofa to share his expertise in custom batteries for portable ham radio, including QRO SOTA and a mountaintop Field Day! We catch up (finally) with stories from the W7O and W6 SOTA campouts, and Mark waxes poetic about an activation that went oh-so-wrong.

Patreon: Want to help us fly SOTA icons out for in-person interviews, and support our audio upgrades? We believe strongly that in-person chats are more fun!https://www.patreon.com/c/SofasOnTheAir

SHOW NOTES

Drink tastings: G4 Tequila Blanco High Proof 108, G4 Tequila Reposado
The NR7Y Hardware Mod: https://youtu.be/zi35aTjEppQ
N6ARA Electronics - the TinyPaddle, and more! https://n6ara.com/
KK6TXI's Battery Field Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBzJ3BqniDE

Chapters

0:00 Hi Umesh!

3:36 Tequila Tasting

9:02 Batteries!

01:11:28 Mark's W7O Campout

01:24:38 Ara's W6 Campout

01:30:11 SOTA Car-tastrophe

01:52:54 Thanks to our Patreon supporters!

THANKS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Umesh KK6TXI - studio space and intro/outro music

Di KO6BTM - audio engineering

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