Year: 2009

I had time to spend in the shack today, and several hours ago I turned on the old Heathkit HW-16 transceiver. I let it warm up a good while, hoping it would work! I hadn't […]

I sure heard a lot of that this weekend as I spent a little time on the air during this weekend's CQ WPX contest. Damn, I had forgotten just how much fun contesting can be, […]

I was in the shack fooling with the laptop computer and I had left the rig on 40 meters from last nights SWL'ing. I was listening to the Voice of Vietnam, pounding in at S9+20db. […]

I just finished up a nice long ragchew on 40 cw with a ham in Auburn, Mich. There's a pocket of CW activity that hangs out in a part of the old Novice subband, generally […]

I've had the chance to spend more quality time with the SignaLink USB interface, and I'm more impressed than ever by its performance. It will run any soundcard mode you have software for, and probably […]

It's been a while since I wrote here, but I'm back. For a time I even deactivated this journal, but I thought to myself, “Self, what the heck am I doing?” So I'm back — […]

I have to admit that my favorite times to be working CW are Straight Key Night (which I missed this year!) and every time the Classic Exchange contest comes around. The Classic Exchange may have […]

I have a cover letter I should be writing now, but instead I'll putz around and write a review of life with my Sciphone i68 iPhone iClone cellular phone (now that's a mouthful). The i68 […]

My wife traveled to Lexington to serve as a judge at a speech competition at Henry Clay High School. Our daughter was a participant from her high school here in town. College students who were […]

There's an old saying that I think is attributed to P.T. Barnum: “Never give a sucker an even break.” For bargain-hunting cheapskates like myself, I think the desire to save some cash turns the judgment […]