Michael P. O'Connor archive
Date : April 2026

After months of trying, I finally got a HF contact from inside my apartment

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: April 27, 2026

I got my General license in October, and a FT-710 back in December. I have been struggling on getting the setting right on the radio to so I could get a contact on HF. I have it hooked up to a LDG Z-100A tuner, and the Antanna is a Diamond HFV-5 pentaband antanna. But the[…]

More on the 3D printer

Categories: Technology
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Published on: April 19, 2026

As noted before when I first got my 3D printer I thought it would be used for some fun things but not as much use as I am using it for, it seems about 3 to 4 times a week I find another thing I can print with it to make things nicer in my[…]

Got ride of my Echo Auto

Categories: News, Technology
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Published on: April 14, 2026

Recently amazon decided to force an update on the Echo Auto, to the stupid Alexa+ I did not want it, months ago when they first tried it you could exit it. But last month they decided that they were going to force it and not let you exit or disable it. I refuse to use[…]

Internet was to ment to make things convent but today I have found it makes life harder

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Published on: April 12, 2026

WEll today I found how bad the internet has made things. First I was tring to buy something at microcenter, tried to use samsung wallet. Well again it wanted me to open unlock the phone so it chould show me some random ad. I did that quickly and quickly closed the phone and tried again,[…]

Got a new Police Scanner

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Published on: April 10, 2026

Years ago I use to have a radio shack police scanner, but since most places have gone to digital/trunced system, it no longer worked. So today while I was at Ham Radio Outlet, I deceded to get one that they had as a open box deal. It is a Uniden BCD436HP. It is a nice[…]

The Power of the National Calling Freq on UHF/VHF

Categories: Ham Radio
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Published on: April 8, 2026

(Originally posted this over on my ham radio only site https://kb3hcg.radio) Well I found a good reason to have both 2m and 70cm calling freqs progreammed into ones mobile radio when traveling. I always knew the value of 2m National calling Freq, I found out that having the 70cm National calling freq also is also[…]

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