Saturday afternoon found me trolling the 20 meter band looking for whatever might be biting. The analogy between fishing and DXing never fails to generate comparisons. Band conditions weren’t great and I knew right away the pickings would be slim. I heard several domestic events underway and decided to wade in as it’s always good to hear CW activity on the bands. Among other things, I made four CW contacts, all on 20, with Canadian...
Things have been rather busy around here the last week. The lawn is demanding a twice a week cutting right now and I’ve been obliging it. The weather has remained remarkably cool and comfortable. I’m certain that will change soon enough. This is Hamvention week and my plans are to go over Friday morning to stumble about the hog barns. I’ll leave about 3pm and retire to the Dayton Marriott in preparation for the...
The weather was nice today. It got up to about 70°F with lots of sunshine and blue skies. We went for a long walk down by the river after a quick lunch at McDonald’s. I’m not a fan of the food, but it was convenient. Kinda. I hate the self-serve kiosks that are popping up everywhere. It’s a big touchscreen interface. Click, click, click, confirm a few things, decline to add anything for any charity...
I’ve been a ham radio enthusiast for a long time — long enough that the words ‘estate planning’ no longer make me change the subject. Not that I’m in any hurry to go, but a timeline has been crossed where we’ve started working on a Last Will, funeral planning, where we will be buried, things like that. Part of that thinking also includes amateur radio. It’s always been a significant part of my life and...
During my morning coffee with Claude today I asked if I was missing something, anything, by shunning all forms of social media, except blogging of course. A little back story, I adopted Twitter when it was first available (2006) and lived through those early years of the whale fails and short ‘blogging’ as Twitter evolved into something worthwhile. Then I was part of the great exodus when Musk ruined it (2022) and have never...