About AJ0EF
About AJ0EF
Welcome to CQ de AJ0EF — my small corner of the web for amateur radio notes, experiments, field reports, lessons learned, and the occasional misadventure.
I’m Joseph Fox, callsign AJ0EF. This site is where I keep track of the parts of ham radio that interest me: operating, learning, tinkering, testing gear, chasing contacts, breaking things in educational ways, and slowly becoming a better operator one mistake at a time.
The subtitle says it plainly:
(Mis)Adventures in Amateur Radio
That is not just branding. It is a warning label.
What this site is
This is part blog, part station notebook, part public scratchpad.
You may find posts about:
- Amateur radio operating notes
- Gear impressions and setup details
- Antennas, radios, software, and station experiments
- Digital modes and logging workflows
- Portable or field operating
- Things I tried that worked
- Things I tried that very much did not work
- Useful references I want to find again later
Some posts will be polished. Some will be closer to field notes. The goal is not to present myself as an expert descending from the mountaintop with perfect advice. The goal is to document the process honestly enough that it might help someone else — or at least help future-me remember what present-me was thinking.
Why “CQ de AJ0EF”?
In radio shorthand, CQ is a general call: “is anyone out there?”
de AJ0EF means “from AJ0EF.”
So the title is both literal and a little philosophical:
Calling anyone, from AJ0EF.
That feels right for a radio blog. Amateur radio is technical, but it is also fundamentally human. It is about signals, propagation, circuits, antennas, software, and procedure — but also about making contact.
What I’m interested in
I enjoy the practical side of radio: getting things working, understanding why they work, and then improving them.
I’m especially interested in the intersection of radio, software, infrastructure, and repeatable workflows. If there is a way to make the station more understandable, more reliable, or easier to operate, I’m probably going to poke at it.
Expect a mix of:
- hands-on experimentation
- notes from the shack
- setup documentation
- operating reflections
- radio/software integration
- occasional “well, that was dumb” debugging stories
The last category may be the most educational.
A note about accuracy
I try to be clear about what I know, what I think, and what I am still figuring out.
If I post something incorrect, incomplete, or misleading, feel free to let me know. Amateur radio has a long tradition of learning from other operators, and I am happy to be corrected when I get something wrong.
Contact
You can find me around the web as AJ0EF.
If you hear me on the air, feel free to say hello.
73,
Joseph Fox / AJ0EF