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ARRL Field Day ARRL Field Day is the most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada. Carteret County Amateur Radio Society held their 2022 Filed Day at the town park in Newport, NC.

All the nice Morse keys I could find were expensive. I built mine out of brass stock from McMaster Carr and red oak for a base.

The Titan is a tugboat sunk in July 2004 as part of NC's artificial reef program. Today Titan sits upright in 60 feet of water about 12 miles out of Beaufort Inlet.

I was looking for a convenient antenna that I could throw in my GoBox. The solution I came up with was a easy-to-stow, roll-up J-Pole I made from 450 Ohm ladder line. It rolls up conveniently and can be stored in my GoBox and deploys easily by throwing a small rope over a tree limb and hoisting it up as high as possible.

A Go-Box is a portable amateur radio station which the radio amateur can take when asked to go to an event which needs support with radio communication. What the Go-Box consists of depends on the extent of the event, and the communication needs.

The US Coast Guard Cutter SPAR is an artificial reef located about 30 miles out of Bogue Inlet. The Spar upright, in a port list, in about 95 feet of water.

"The Pipes" is an artificial reef about 12 miles off Atlantic Beach, NC where NC DOT dumped several hundred tons of concrete pipe culvert.

All the nice chess boards I could find were expensive. So I made mine from oak and maple.

"There ain't no sound like Bogue Sound"

This short video explains the 20-meter dipole antenna I built using PVC friction insulators. No soldering, no wrapping, testing, re-wrapping, testing, wrapping again. Just snip until it's at the desired frequency.

August 29th, 2022