Hmm.
I can throw a half-full 8-oz water pod very nearly up to the tree branch I want to hang my antenna from. And that with my poor rotator-cuff-impaired throwing arm. That means the boy will be able to...
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but it has just been crazy around here. I was planning to put my G5RV in the air this past weekend…and we were barely around the house. What with fraternal events and Mom moving and the wife finally...
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“You can ask me for anything you like, except time.”
Ah, Boney, I can definitely relate. Ever since June, I have been trying to wrap my head around the question pool for the Amateur Extra Class radio exam. I simply cannot find enough time to sit down...
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Following up this post, I have gone through 88% of the HamTestOnline Amateur Extra study materials, and I am consistently getting 40 of 50 or better on practice tests. I actually did one this morning...
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UPS, you lie like a rug.
[Updated. See at bottom.] So yesterday around noon, I heard BANG BANG BANG DING DONG from the front door. Not expecting anything, and not having heard a delivery truck pull up, the first thing I did...
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I was tuning through the bands right after work today and happened to be on 20 meters. And I happened on 14.313MHz. You have to understand that I've been through there any number of times and there's...
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Ham Shack a lack a lacka…
Not that it lacks anything, per se, but it is a pretty basic station. Yaesu FT-450D transceiver, LDG YT-450 tuner, with a Yaesu MD-100A8X dynamic desktop microphone*. There's an SEC 1235M 30-amp...
View ArticleKidsSysAdmins today.
Customer writes in about using our utility that takes one of our encoded system files and translates it to plain text so you can view it. When I try to look at them using [utility], they scroll by so...
View Article“This is a simulated emergency…”
Around 8:30 AM today, the local ARES organization started a simulated emergency test (SET) along with many other ARES teams statewide. The SET message sent out yesterday stated, in part: ***** THIS IS...
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