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A ‘deedle-deedle’ damn fine return to WPX contesting
Sunday night, Feb. 9, 2020 My first exposure to RTTY was when I was about 14 years old. My best friend and I were into CB radio at the time, and we heard that a […]
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Putting the ‘X’ in ATX …
Friday, June 14, 2019 — Back in April, the power supply in my main desktop PC died. I quickly found a replacement at the local Radio Shack store (remember those?). And my PC hasn’t missed […]
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Something rotten in WordPress …
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 — I have a lot to write about but I’m having issues with the database that drives my website; I keep getting database errors. The hosting company says — naturally — […]
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Not much to cuss or discuss but the snow …
Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018 — We’ve been having lousy band conditions AND weather conditions here in the Ohio Valley of late. We are such panty waists compared to you hams in our northern climes — […]
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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 […]
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Ten-Tec’s future; ultrabook repairs; a little ICOM love …
Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017 My son says I remind him of Felix Unger from “The Odd Couple” — my sinuses are giving me fits today (a headache from H-E-double hockey sticks to be exact) — […]
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RF-enabled shack a success; no TVI, QRM, runs, drips or errors …
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017 — Success! From my corner in our home’s library — amidst our cable TV, DVR, 3 desktop PCs, four laptops and a Minecraft server — I made my first contact by […]
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Spark vs. CW debate and federal imposition of ‘quiet hours’ for licensed hams
FRIDAY NIGHT, FEB. 3, 2017 I was browsing some nearly century-old QST magazines a couple of days ago and ran across an interesting period of Amateur Radio history when “Old Man” spark and the “New […]
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Review: Brown Bros iambic paddle / Signal Electric combo key – plus video!
Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016 — I’ve been staying busy most evenings between writing news and trying to complete honey-do’s, and I’ve neglected my CW net skeds for quite a while. Last weekend I made it […]
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One puzzle solved, the other — not so much ….
Sunday, July 24, 2016, 6:55 p.m. — Happy to report one of my antenna issues is repaired and will be back in the air tomorrow; the other one is still a work in progress. RINGO? […]