bugs
A little bit of dit and a little bit of dah …
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 — I just wrapped up a late night/early morning QSO on 40 CW with Ed, W7GVE in Golden Valley, AZ. Ed was using a straight key and I had one of […]
Year: 2011
bugs
Cleaning house (and bugs, too) …
Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 — Finished my radio show at noon, and after lunch decided to continue some projects in the shack related to my bugs. My long-term goal is to clean, document and photograph […]
ebay
Avoiding the bidding wars on eBay, but for good reason …
Monday, Feb. 14, 2011 — After nearly a week of salivating once again over eBay listings — including some nice collectible bugs and several HF rigs — I was struck yesterday with a dose of […]
bugs
With apologies to Flip Wilson: ‘The Go-Devil made me do it’
Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011, 1 a.m. — I just finished reassembling and adjusting my latest acquisition to my bug collection, my early Go-Devil bug … yes, the same one I cursed just one day ago. […]
bugs
Bedeviled by shipping, packing problems, my new Go-Devil bug arrives
Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011 — Sometimes I guess you get what you deserve when you deal with buying collectible keys on eBay. I had the chance to buy another rare early Go-Devil bug a week […]
ham radio
Icom missed the boat with its replacement for the IC-746PRO
Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, 3:16 p.m. — One of the best values in HF+VHF transceivers has long been the Icom IC-746PRO. It’s an easy rig to operate and full of excellent features. Unfortunately, it was […]
CW keys
Busy doing something: I missed out on the rarest of the rare CW keys …
Jan. 31, 2011, 10:45 p.m. — Fate was working against me — or for me, its a little hard to say: The “Holy Grail” of CW keys, the ultra-rare Horace G. Martin Autoplex key sold […]
ham radio
FT-450D: Needed improvements to the rig are too little, too late for me
Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011, 11:45 p.m. — In a recent new issue of QST I happened to see the new Yaesu FT-450D, a revised version of the FT-450 entry-level HF+6M rig. The FT-450 isn’t a […]
bugs
Holy Grail of CW keys surfaces on eBay … where’s Indiana Jones?
Jan. 27, 2011 — I’ve avoided browsing eBay for most of a week until I couldn’t stand it anymore — I had to see what was new for sale in the CW key listings. I […]
bugs
From the “Those Were The Days” file …
Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011 — Due to an extreme lack of funds I have avoided eBay at all costs lately — though I did buy some incidentals recently (ear bugs, dog leash, etc.). No new […]