Year: 2005

This morning brought a new “bug” to my front door step … a 1946 Vibroplex Zephyr, purchased from “The Crew at 22,” the ham-radio-at-school project run for 20 years now by Joe Fairclough, WB2JKJ. The […]

Hi Blurty fans, It's been a few days since I entered anything here so I better update things while I'm here. My radio club had a successful — and enjoyable — Special Event station operation […]

Hi Blurty fans, It's been a few days since I entered anything here so I better update things while I'm here. My radio club had a successful — and enjoyable — Special Event station operation […]

Hi Blurty fans, It's been a few days since I entered anything here so I better update things while I'm here. My radio club had a successful — and enjoyable — Special Event station operation […]

I've spent a few hours tonight working on a bug I bought recently. It's a 1951 Vibroplex Presentation model, and it's a little bit sad. At some point, it's had a hard life; the dot […]

I've been up late playing with my code keys this evening. We had a ham radio club meeting tonight, which I had to lead in the absence of our president. We are having a special […]

It was like Christmas in September today at my home … between FedEx and the USPS, I wound up with lots of stuff today. It's been a ham radio Saturday today, too. My daughter and […]

I've never heard as many hams operating so many emergency nets, trying to handle all kinds of communications into and out of the affected areas in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The 75 meter band […]

I received a new CW key in the mail yesterday. This is an old key (arent' all of mine “old”???), and one I've wanted to try for many years. It's an old Autronic key — […]

I spent some time this afternoon in my shop fabricating a new thumb piece (paddle) for one of my J-36 semi-automatic keys. I purchased some 1/8-inch black acrylic sheet scrap from eBay a week or […]