Month: November 2007

I've been listening to the group on 3955 tonight while I've been working in the shack, and there's a fellow who claims he works for Homeland Security. This guy says he's on the job at […]

For the past few days I've been listening to an early-1970s era receiver, an Allied AX-190. The AX-190 is a ham bands-only solid-state receiver that sold new in the $250 price range. At the time, […]

With the CQWW CW contest this past weekend, I thought I might test the contesting waters again. I programmed my Icom's memories for the exchange and what-not needed for the contest Q's. There were some […]

Happy Thanksgiving! Since our family get-together is this evening, I've been fooling around in the shack. I was tuning across 40 CW a little while ago and ran across a Michigan station calling CQ. I […]

I've been doing a little retro hamming this evening here in the shack. Right now I'm listening to the guys on 3955 kHz on my Knight R-100A receiver. It took a while for the thing […]

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 […]