K5YVY amateur radio

10/05/2025

K5YVY now on AllStarLink [Node 475501]
with echolink [node 451646]
RF Frequency 433.520

09/20/2025

Any hams in the north Mississippi area use P25 radios for amateur radio use?

09/20/2025

We met Mike and Becky last year at Huntsville and they have really encouraged my want to continue learning CW. I’ve had a few planned CW contacts in the past but last week I seen them spotted on POTA CW and jumped in and threw my call out and got the contact. If you like or interested in CW check them out!

https://www.hamradioduo.com/

http://learnmorsecode.org/

https://qslcards.hamradioduo.com

https://youtu.be/As7clnbHiSo?si=PIkoBik0NUyJWE4r

Some say it is their favorite Hamfest. Is it justified? Huntsville Hamfest is more than just an event with new and used gear to look at or buy. Join us as w...

09/13/2025

Finally went to check the PO Box, another county win for Mississippi QSO party and QSL cards from Paul N1OG and one from Becky (and Mike) N4BKY. I worked Paul at Huntsville hamfest while he was parachute mobile making contacts for the first time and Becky was my first 2m CW contact at Huntsville.

Check out Paul’s YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/

And Mike & Becky’s: https://youtube.com/?si=o7pLFpX2dTOI6Llm

09/08/2025

Enjoyed the weekend at US-7125 (Enid Lake) for mama Noel’s birthday weekend, had the parents next door to us and we cooked out, dog played till he dropped each day, and made a lot of great contacts on the radio. Ended up with 84 stations in the log. Followed along and contacted W1LFH Live Free and Ham’s 24hr Pota event, caught my friends Izzo, Paul, Eric, and Todd on their live stream. Accidentally came up on the POTA POWER duo Julie, Vaughn , with guest Jim from Ham Radio Prep. And got Tim (Grayman Pota) in the log. Several contacts mentioned kind words about enjoying my videos and/or the Clubhouse shows. It was a refreshing and rejuvenating weekend.

09/03/2025

My friend Jason at Ham Radio 2.0 is currently doing a series of videos "30 days of Ham Radio" during this time he will be making a donation to the Teachers Institute of ARRL . Check his YouTube page for the videos. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ham+radio+2.0

If you would like to make a direct donation you may at this link: https://home.arrl.org/action/Donate/Donate-Now/CashProductId/2051193641

Thanks to YouTube channel, Ham Radio 2.0, the "30 Days of Ham Radio" fundraiser support ARRL's education initiatives and the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology.

09/03/2025

Some of our Friends in the Northeast of the country is going to be doing a 24 hour POTA event, packed full of events, plus taking donations to support the Teachers Institute at the ARRL. Check out more info at their link below!

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE STREAM ITS GOING BE EPIC! 24 HOUR POTA LIVE STREAM The Live Free and Ham Boys are thrilled to announce an incredible weekend filled with camping, radio activities, and live streaming! Join us at the picturesque Greenfield State Park on Saturday, September 6th, as we set out to acti...

09/01/2025

📢 PAPA JACK’s TRADE DAY! Win a 7100!!!

🎟️ Tickets are $1 ea., 6 for $5, 12 for $10 & 25 for $20.

🌐 https://www.chattradio.com/ICOM-IC-7100-p227954528

❓Any of you that has heard or not heard of Papa Jacks Trade day and interested in learning a little more about it. I done this video on it last year, toward the end of the video you get some history about the event. https://youtu.be/6AfWyMfTj60?si=LtUCyQP6QlCid06T

ℹ️ Chatt Radio is slated to be present, so there will be a great opportunity to grab some good connectors and great prices, I highly recommend their $20 bag 🙂. https://www.chattradio.com

📅 This year it will be Saturday, October 18th starting at 8am into the early afternoon.

🗺️ It will be held in Pontotoc, MS this year at 139 W Reynolds St.

Link to the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/729041456797543/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

08/31/2025

https://meshtastic.org/

Got two Meshtastic nodes up, one at my office and one at home. Today I remembered I had an unused junction box from my old cable internet, so I took it off the house and put my heltec v3 inside it. It has a battery pack inside that has previously powered it for about 5 days without charging, on top I stuck an old solar battery pack I haven’t used in a while on with Velcro. Not what I really had in mind to build an outdoor node, but I had all of this stuff already lol.

For now it’s on my short tower about 18ft up, eventually I’ll get it on the other tower at about 40ft with a high gain antenna. Incase others locally want to get into Meshtastic, I’ll have a “repeater” online.

05/21/2025

For my Huntsville area hams (maybe we should convince Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist to add a fox hunt transmitter to his sensor packages 😎)

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19JJPXMYaX/?mibextid=wwXIfr

05/13/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AjgJyoLUw/?mibextid=wwXIfr

New for RepeaterBook Plus subscribers and repeater owners. Learn More: https://www.repeaterbook.com/wiki/doku.php?id=cloudrf_kml_generator

05/12/2025

FT-891 Install: Quick & Dirty |
https://youtu.be/R6sVpRzrs08