Year: 2007

I've been playing a little more radio lately and enjoying the hobby more since I stepped back from my club duties. Seemed like most of my hamming was participating in nets — not a bad […]

It's been a while since I added anything to the ol' blog. This is mostly due to the fact that my kids were out of school the first two weeks of the month on fall […]

I was tuning around this afternoon and found 15 meters was hopping with stations working the CQP, the California QSO Party. The California Kilowatts were booming in on phone, and I decided to slide down […]

I was operating my Icom IC-746PRO recently doing some A/B tests between it and my old Heathkit HW-16. Sounds like a bad joke, doesn't it? Well, they don't really compare, bare rig to bare rig. […]

The religous fellow on 3944 who preaches that the Roman Catholic church is plotting the takeover of the world's governments was left speechless for a period of time tonight. I was working on some cables, […]

CORRECTIONS DUE. Actually, this should be filed under “Education” because this is new information that I've stumbled across that corrects my earlier statements in this blog (and elsewhere). I've learned that the Telegraph Apparatus Company […]

CORRECTIONS DUE. Actually, this should be filed under “Education” because this is new information that I've stumbled across that corrects my earlier statements in this blog (and elsewhere). I've learned that the Telegraph Apparatus Company […]

My latest eBay “must haves” arrived in this morning's mail — a 1919 Vibroplex Original and a Cedar Rapids bug. The Cedar Rapids bug was won long ago. The seller was holding it, apparently unaware […]

There was an old Kenner game years ago that used my headline above as part of the jingle … it went something like “Man, dontcha bug me … I got my own bugs too … […]

There's a couple of new rigs to salivate over, though I guess I'll have to wait to see the final “street” price on both units. YAESU FT-950. I'm very, very intrigued by the new FT-950, […]