Closing out 2024, here are the top five blog posts at k0nr.com during the year. Some people may see this as a lazy way of creating one more blog post for the year without much effort, and they would be right. These posts are the top five viewed during the year but may have been written earlier.

Top Five Blog Posts

Leading the list is this blog post…a perennial favorite that seems to make the top five each year. This particular article is tuned for Colorado but also provides a link to an article covering the topic for the USA.

Choose Your 2m Frequency Wisely

In second place, this is another popular article that introduces 2-meter SSB operating.

Getting Started on 2m SSB

New to the list this year is an article I wrote in the latter half of 2023. It talks about the station I’ve been using for both SOTA and POTA activations, built around the Icom IC-705.

Improved IC-705 SOTA/POTA station

This post, which comes in fourth place on the list, explains how the FCC rules prevent having one radio that does everything.

One Radio To Rule Them All (Ham, GMRS, FRS, MURS)?

In fifth place is this article describing the RH770 antenna for use with dual-band 2m/70cm handheld radios. This is a high-performing yet inexpensive antenna that should be in your toolkit.

A Better Antenna for Dualband Handhelds

Editors Choice

Just for good measure, I am including one more post that I think is notable. I started wondering when the name “Handie-Talkie” was first used to describe a handheld radio. This led me down a path that taught me about radios used in World War II. Interesting stuff.

Handie-Talkie or Walkie-Talkie?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

73 Bob K0NR

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The ARRL 10m contest during the high solar cycle is always a pleasure and as 10m has done in the past it surprised me with some nice DX...7Q2T in  Malawi! My contacts were Europe and the U.S. with some South  America sprinkled in. The solar conditions were good with a K index from K1 to K3 but the Bz was in the negative numbers for most of the contest. This gave way to deep fading of signals to the point that if you did not get the contact information on the first try most often the signal was gone. This year I increased my contacts by 200 plus over last year and came close to doubling my score. I found each day the band opened to  Europe around 8 am local time and at around 11 am local it began to shift to the U.S. As the afternoon came South America would trickle in along with Hawaii Once again I was able to put PE4BAS fellow blogger Bas in the log.

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