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Project TouCans: Doing more Radio with Less Since 2023

 I've never outright said it, but one of the points of these ham radio posts is to demonstrate that you can have a whole lot of fun with ham radio without doing a whole lot of prep or worrying a whole, whole lot about perfection. Towards that end, I wanted to mention our QSL cards, and our antenna launcher. I'm getting the QSL cards ready to go for the recent California QSO Party. I'm using our tried and true design that involves photos printed by the Walgreens at the bottom of the hill on our 54 line, and USPS double reply postcards . Here they are: The picture features the TouCans radio housed in the antenna that sweeps from the top of the house just above the kitchen window down to the back fence. The radio is also sporting its rain/fog cover which is a donut bag from the donut store at the bottom of our hill on the 52 line.  Turns out the inside of donut bags are waxed, and that's quite enough to shield the little radio and amp housed in a pineapple and tuna can fr...