Month: January 2008

We had a blustery cold front roar through the county last night, and boy did it roar. We had measured winds of nearly 70 mph. The winds took down my dipole. It appears the porch […]

I don't know what came over me, perhaps it was copying the mail on the Classic Exchange CW contest this weekend, but yesterday evening I fired up Old Ironsides. That's the name given by the […]

“There's no use telling the America people the truth when they don't even accept the fact that the Vatican is running the country.” — wacky Amateur Radio operator Yes, they're back on the air, spewing […]

Here's the final auction amounts for some eBay auctions I have been watching. Clearly the trend right now is “up.” KNIGHT KIT T-50 TRANSMITTER. The T-50 isn't as widely seen on eBay as the later […]

The folks who work for the family-owned hardware store here know that most of the times when I come in I'm not there to buy hardware stuff for the house. Nine times out of 10, […]

My new 1938 McElroy Mac Key DeLuxe arrived in today's mail. This is the third or fourth key I've purchased from the same seller, and he again did a fantastic job packaging it. This is […]

It's been a busy-as-heck non-Amateur Radio day, so I was happy to get to the shack for some quality time with my 1936 McElroy Mac Key and Icom 746PRO. I checked in with the Kentucky […]

I've not been very active on any ham band the last week or so. I'm still very, very happy that my Icom doesn't need to go in for repairs, and its still performing flawlessly as […]

I still don't have my Icom IC-746PRO boxed up to send for repair — and it looks like I won't have to! I bought new boxes to double box the thing a couple of days […]

The midwestern Amateur Radio operator who believes the Roman Catholic Church is responsible for the assasination of U.S. presidents through history, and is in absolute control of the U.S. through its surrogate, President George W. […]