Month: April 2008

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 […]

As someone who collects old Amateur Radio publications and books, one of the neatest little books of the 1940-70s published by the ARRL were their numbered publications, including The Radio Amateur's Operating Manual, How to […]

As I was going over my last entry (below) regarding my right-angle bug, I realized one of the differences I missed — how the dot contact is connected in the key circuit. On the Codemaster […]

I was cruising my usual web sites looking to see what was new among key collectors when a photo reminded me of my own semi-automatic enigma. The key shown at right arrived at my shack […]

It's been a couple of months or more in the making, but I finally returned to my MFJ keyer/Bencher paddle combo device that's been languishing beneath my operating desk. The keyer works fine. I had […]