Month: March 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 — […]