Month: July 2009

Holy smokes! My new-to-me Icom IC-706MKIIG arrived this morning and I broke it out of the box as soon as I arrived home this afternoon. I haven't received a response on my query about the […]

I'm listening tonight on 75 meters, some guy has been talking to a newer ham about antennas. The newer ham has a 160-meter dipole fed with ladderline to a tuner, and his buddy, who has […]

I bought a new rig, got lost in the bids … (apologies to Britney Spears). Yeah, I did it again. Saw something on eBay — a like-new Icom IC-706MKIIG at a bargain Buy It Now […]

Ahhh… the smell of dust burning off 50 year old vacuum tubes is like the smell of your favorite Christmas dish wafting in from the kitchen …. its a special smell, though few appreciate is […]

I received my second Heil Classic 5 microphone today via UPS, which I'll squirrel away I guess. I'm waiting for my 4-pin XLR plug to arrive from my eBay vendor, then perhaps I'll try it […]

Boy, I sure missed — nearly so anyway — the CQ WW VHF contest this weekend. I seem to do so little operating these days that I hadn't checked to see what was coming up […]

I've been giving my OSP-branded Shure 55S copy that I bought a couple of months ago a workout on my Yaesu FT-2000 and I'm happy with the results. The rig's built-in audio EQ is impressive; […]

While Apple's new iPhone 3GS has been flying off store shelves and selling like proverbial hotcakes, new users are finding the new phones are not as resilient as many lower-tech cell phone devices. Complaints have […]

I'm listening to 3945 kHz and the rantings of Tom (whose call I won't mention), a ham in Iowa who uses ham radio for his anti-Catholic ravings. He and his followers (make that “follower” because […]