Michael P. O'Connor archive
Date : December 2025

Hobbies

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Published on: December 21, 2025

I saw an video recently on youtube where someone was complaining that hobbies have been ruined in recent years, he made his argument. I personally reject his argument. His argument is that influincers on either on Youtube or tiktoc have made it where people feel they have to spend a lot of money to get[…]

Just got a “new” telescope

Categories: Geekdom, Ham Radio, Technology
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Published on: December 20, 2025

A while back my dad was going to get rid of his old telescope as the cover on it would not come off. I had help from a friend to get it off, but it does come off now. All that was missing at that point was an eye piece for it, and I found[…]

For the new kb3hcg.radio website I am going to make

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Published on: December 13, 2025

I was talking to a ham friend of mine about the new domain I have and said I am thinking of doing a website on the domain along with the email. And he said since it will be a ham radio website, I have to do it in 90’s style since a lot of personal[…]

Just found out about the .radio TLD

Categories: Ham Radio, Technology, Web Site
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Published on: December 12, 2025

Today I found out about the .radio TLD. I also found out that while it normally 200+EUR ham radio operators are given a discounted price of 25EUR (about 30USD) a year, and I thought it would be nice to have my call sign as a domain. so I registered kb3hcg.radio right now I have it[…]

Finally Got the Ham setup going

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: December 10, 2025

I fiannly got the attena tuner today, and have set it up. Now here are some pics of my setup. First here is my setup where I sit to operate the radio.  You can see the ham computer I have setup, the ham radio and the tuner, and my late mothers old shortwave radio (a[…]

Trying to get the FT-710 working at home

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: December 6, 2025

While my FT-891 works great with my ATAS-120A Antenna on my car. But I been unable to get a good attena working for my FT-710, I been tring to use 2 ham sticks setup in a dipol setup, but I can not get the SWR under 5:1, so I kind of given up, so I[…]

Got 2 new radios recently

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: December 5, 2025

Back on Nov 24th I went out to the DE Ham Radio Outlet, to get a Yaesu FT-710 feild. While I was out there I also picked up a FT-891 for my car, since I recently got my general upgread for my ham license. I have not had a chance to play with the FT-710[…]

Got lucky at home depot the other day.

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Published on: December 5, 2025

The other day I went down to a local home depot to pick up some stuff to build a small attena mast for my balcony. One of the items I needed was a block of wood for the base. When I went to the wood section the guy there was helping another customer cut some[…]

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