nonsense
The unknowing leading the clueless …
Thanksgiving night For the past 30 or 40 minutes, I’ve been listening to three hams talking together, with 2 of them trying to help a fellow with his audio. The ham had a Yaesu FT-2000 […]
nonsense
antennae
Cubical quad project predates Zedman’s ham ticket …
My first experience with a cubical quad antenna came long before I earned my Amateur Radio license in 1987. The year was 1970-something and my best friend and I were big CB radio fanatics. We […]
classic radio
Even today, new hams still have their ‘novice accent’ …
Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 I like to listen a lot to QSOs on the 75 meter band in the evenings. Its an old habit, one that dates back to my teenage years as an SWL. […]
ARRL
Love it or hate it, ARRL proposal will reshape HF operation as we know it …
Friday, March 2, 2018 — To quote Monty Python’s Flying Circus, “… Now for something completely different.” No ramblings today about the marvels of a 70-year-old Morse key rescued from the rubbish bin of history, […]
classic radio
‘What a long, strange trip its been’: KY4Z’s hamfest sales notes & observations …
Saturday, Sept. 9th marked the first time I have set up to sell at a hamfest in more than 10 years. Eight of those years I spent as an elected official of the ARRL, and […]
classic radio
Today’s episode: ‘Tuner trouble revisited’ … or … ‘Gadzooks! I’m fresh out of bad puns!’
Thursday, April 20, 2017 — I’m heading to the local AM station to record an interview with U.S. Rep. Brett Guthrie in a while, so thought I might take time to catch up with my […]
computers
Update from the shack …
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 — Quick update … nothing new added to the key collection, but I did pick up a couple of years worth of “Radio” magazine. It basically positioned itself as the […]
classic radio
The Muncie ‘Rock Crusher’- CW key parts connection; Mon-Key update …
Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, 2 a.m. — I have nothing good to report in regard to the band conditions on 80 CW. The last several nights the NCS is barely readable, though I did squeak […]
bugs
Realization that it isn’t just my CW skills that are slipping these days …
Friday, Dec. 9, 2016 — Another kinda screwy propagation night on 80, but i managed to get checked-in before the band went too long. While I was goofing around in the shack before the net, […]
CW keys
Shack excavation provides opportunity to put neglected keys on the air …
Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016, 10:30 a.m. — During my excavations of the space under my operating desk (in the hunt for a missing screw that actually wasn’t missing — another story), I uncovered several keys […]