I haven’t subscribed to a printed newspaper in over two decades. Our local newspaper used to be pretty good, and it even came in a morning and evening editions. But then the internet. The local paper shrunk to once a day and then it kept shrinking. Probably like most smaller towns, our newspaper morphed into a business with only a few actual employees who chase a few local stories each day with the rest of...

I almost can’t believe our good fortune with the weather. This morning is yet another one with blue skies and low temperatures. 55F when I awoke so of course I opened the house up which had the wife running to grab a sweater. We can’t seem to agree on the perfect temperature, but this recent spate of unseasonably cool air makes me happy. I know, it’s a short-lived pleasure and the brutal heat must surely...

I’ve been reading about openings on six meters these last few days so this afternoon I thought I’d get in on it. 30 contacts were added to the log. Nothing too exciting, but there were a handful of unconfirmed grid squares among those. Of course it was all FT8. It’s been that way on 50MHz since the new digital mode was introduced. The last CW contact I made on the Magic Band was in June...

The power went off during a big thunderstorm Thursday night and we were without power for twenty-five hours. The only bit of good news was the storms that brought down the power lines also brought down the temperatures and yesterday was rather pleasant — windows all open since no air conditioning was available. Had the power gone off 24 hours earlier when it was a muggy 90F outside we would have been gnashing our teeth....

August 27, 2029 A full house was expected for tonight’s meeting of the Logan Lake DX Club. The main presentation was going to be a live video session with the owner and chief promoter of the rapidly growing FacilisQSO amateur radio service. Since its launch a few months earlier interest had been running high and word on the street was that tens of thousands of hams had already subscribed. Once the meeting got underway all...