Year: 2008

Just finished with my NCS duties and I'm a free ham again. Static crashes from storms passing across the southern half of the state were killer in my headphones. Down in West Kentucky, several parades […]

The Magic Band was open this morning, and I made some contacts in Colorado, North Dakota and Minnesota. It was really good to hear some signals booming in via eSkip. The real question I had […]

I'm having doubts about my own sanity in regard to recent discussions surrounding Field Day. Former FCC division chief John Johnston, W3BE, wrote in his Rules & Regulations column in the May issue of World […]

I tested the Drake several more times today, and it mostly did the same thing — operated for about 4 minutes before crapping out on me. I tried several times this evening to listen to […]

MISSED MEETING. For starters, I did not attend the local club meeting has originally planned. I had NCS duties that night for a statewide net and opted to play radio instead. I began a couple […]

My new FT-757GX has officially become the keeper radio of the three Yaesu's I own. I've spent the last couple of days working on the encoder shaft. I finally was able to get the shaft […]

I don't know why, but I'm a sucker when it comes to the Yaesu FT-757GX. This HF rig was my first solid-state transceiver back in 1989, and I owned one for many years. I sold […]

The drama with the radio club continues, though things still are continuing. There's a new constitition that will be introduced and probably voted on next Monday night. The new constitution is thorough to say the […]

You would think that with age would come wisdom, and the realization that it is much better to be thought an idiot than to prove that theory as fact. I guess that just comes with […]

I've been spending my Sunday tuning around the ham bands, mostly 40 meters. I ran across a QSO in progress and the topic interested me — buying a new rig. The guy who was doing […]