It was nice and cool when I awoke today so I decided to take advantage of it by taking a long walk at first light. The brutal heat of another Indiana summer is just around the corner. Technically the season is just getting underway though by my reckoning it’s almost half over. I count summer as beginning on Memorial Day and wrapping up on Labor Day which means the 4th of July is the midpoint. And that’s just a week away. Allow me my silly delusions, I hate hot weather. Our neighborhood...

It was long ago, but not so long that your grandparents would have missed it. The pioneering days of radio and the amateur radio service was detailed nicely by author, Charles William Taussig, an associate member of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 'THE BOOK OF RADIO' published in 1922. Look around online if you want to download the entire book, it's loaded with history of the pioneering days of radio. Presented here is one small part taken from Chapter XV, 'What the Amateur Has Done in Radio'. When, just prior to the formulating of the...

Participation has been down recently in several of the popular QRP outdoor activities. I suspect attention to Parks on the Air has whetted the usual large appetite for more radio in the field type work. Nevertheless, here is advanced notice of the Annual Summer Flight of the Bumblebees which takes place on Sunday, July 26, 2026, during the four-hour daytime window, from 1700 to 2100 UTC. This casual QRP CW event consists of hundreds of ‘Bumblebees’ who are operating portable stations at outdoor locations, and other stations who try to work as many of these ’Bumblebees’ as...

The Summer Solstice is the time of maximum light - when the countryside around us revels in colorful and fragrant splendor. This time is known in the Druid tradition as that of Alban Hefin - ‘The Light of Summer’ or The Light of the Shore’. Druidry has a great respect and reverence for places that are ‘in between’ worlds. The seashore is one such place, where the three realms of Earth, Sea and Sky meet. There is great power in places such as these. It is the time of greatest light when the Solar God is crowned by...

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 the content being from a syndicate. I dropped it ending my lifetime of reading the daily news printed on actual paper. In its wake I...