bugs
Just in time for Straight Key Night …
Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013, 1:45 a.m. — I have to get up early and take my son to school, so I’ll be brief (well, relatively). I’m in the middle of finals week on my master’s […]
Year: 2013
CW keys
Every key tells a story; this one is “Smoke gets in your eyes” …
Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013 — while I have been browsing eBay pretty regularly these days, I haven’t been a buying a great deal of ham radio-related stuff. And that’s by design; I’m not adding to […]
computers
A Tale of Two (or more) Computers …
Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013 — I can hear it already … “Zed, why in tarnation aren’t you operating the Sweepstakes? How can you call yourself a red-blooded American HAM if aren’t busting your bee-hiney contesting […]
bugs
eBay this and eBay that … and a mystery bug arrives
Monday, Oct. 14, 2013 — I’m still waiting to put my new Rotoplex to work at the operating position, just too many irons in too many fires it seems. But I promise, I’ll get to […]
bugs
Resisting the allure of that ‘Buy It Now’ price is — at times — futile …
Monday, Sept. 30, 2013 — I have no good excuse for buying this Lionel J-36 beyond the fact it was very clean and appeared to be an easy one to refurbish. The base was in […]
CW keys
A warrior of a different color …
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 — The man in the Big Brown Truck delivered a new key to my QTH yesterday afternoon, a Vibroplex Chrome Warrior. This isn’t a particularly collectible key, but I have been […]
classic radio
Keyers and iambic paddles …
Thursday morning — While organizing the basement a week or so ago I ran into an MFJ paddle/keyer combo that I apparently bought on eBay 7 or 8 years ago. The box was packed with […]
computers
What to do when your DMU is DOA …
Monday, July 29, 2013 — It’s lunchtime here in Kentucky and I just finished a phone call to Yaesu in bright and sunny California. The problem that prompted my call? My Yaesu DMU 2000. Hi, […]
bugs
Tales from The Shack: A Cootie key lives!
Tuesday, July 23, 2013 — After my previous entry about cootie keys, I was bound and determined to locate my missing cootie key. As a result, I made major progress cleaning my shack and threw […]
CW keys
A tale of two cooties …
Saturday, July 13, 2013 — There’s nothing I’m watching on eBay today, so I thought I would take time and update my blog. The IARU HF contest is underway, don’t know that I’ll take time […]