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‘Yes, OM, there IS a CW Santa Claus’ …
Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, 2 a.m. — Well, there’s reason to celebrate — Yes, OM, there IS a Santa Claus. As I chronicled in my last entry (if you were awake by the time you […]
Year: 2015
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Weighing options for dealing with my ‘Christmas Surprise’ …
Dec. 25, 2015, Christmas Day — I suppose the fact that some Christmas gifts don’t live up to expectations shouldn’t be a surprise to me now that I’m a kid well into middle age. But […]
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USPS just delivered ‘The CW Nightmare Before Christmas’ …
Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, 1:30 p.m. — Well, Christmas is a time of giving, right? I think I have just received the Nightmare Before a CW Christmas in today’s postal mail. I have struggled with […]
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Right now, wrong net … getting old ain’t for sissies (sigh)
Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015 — Well, my wife has a couple of additional reasons to kill me — but what else is new, right?? I have a nice 1921 Vibroplex Original due to be delivered […]
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100th Anniversary bug pressed into service
Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 — Another night, another net check-in. Time snuck up on me this evening and the next thing I notice is that its 12 minutes to 9 p.m. — net time! The […]
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Tonight’s episode: “Cleaning Crew” or, “What the hell is that thing doing in my clean kitchen sink?”
Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, 11:30 p.m. — After last night’s escapades and the missed CW net, I had time to regroup tonight and better prepare, i.e., I made sure my key worked well in […]
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KY4Z in ‘The Case of the Scratchy Dots’ or ‘Hey Ma! Lookit what followed me home from eBay’
Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 — My wife is going to kill me. It has been many months since I actually purchased an addition to my collection of code keys (aka “The Island of Misfit […]
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Lionel- built J-36 put to the test in the shack Monday night …
Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015 — I have been rumbling around the ham shack the last few days, and mostly getting tired of the contests underway. All I really want to do is make a few […]
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Pending projects piling up …
Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015 — I’m here in the shack reviewing my To-Do list, and I have several projects I want to focus on between now and the end of the year. J-37 DOUBLE KEY. […]
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Perplexed by the nexus of Rotoplexes …
Sunday, Nov. 15, 2015 — As luck would have it, no sooner than I post yesterday’s rambling entry in this space, I happened to visit eBay and — lo and behold — there’s a second […]