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Exploring and Preserving
the Night Skies in Central Texas



Deanna Rose
- Sep 21, 2022
- 1 min
Achievement Unlocked-Vanity Call Sign!
Because I'm an absolute nerd, I wanted to get a vanity call sign-basically change my call sign from the randomly generated call sign from...
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Deanna Rose
- Sep 13, 2022
- 1 min
Mobile Radio Setup
I'm one of those weirdos who'll spend excessive amounts of money cobbling something together rather than just buying the thing outright....
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Deanna Rose
- Sep 9, 2022
- 1 min
Sending out my first QSL cards!
Since getting my ham radio license, I've made a total of 3 contacts (I've been busy with work and preparing for my move in November)....
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Deanna Rose
- Sep 4, 2022
- 1 min
First Contact!
I headed out to my mom's Saturday to try to use my Baofeng UV-5R to make my first contact, but no luck. I even connected to some local...
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Deanna Rose
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
FCC legal!
As of this morning, I've been assigned a call sign by the FCC (KI5WWR) and am now legal to transmit on ham radio! However, I'm a picky...
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Deanna Rose
- Aug 28, 2022
- 1 min
Achievement Unlocked: Technician Exam Passed!
So I've been radio silent (pun intended) for the past couple of weeks, but not for nothing. Besides my heavy workload, I've been studying...
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Deanna Rose
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
Live Oak Observatory?!?
So this is me just being a nerd, and Live Oak Observatory is just what I call my mom's house (she loves her live oak trees!). She has...
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Deanna Rose
- Aug 4, 2022
- 1 min
Let's what I can do with this thing...
It looks like a circuit board with a coax connector, but it's really an Isometric Helical Antenna, 2.4Ghz-5.8Ghz Circularly Polarized...
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