The antenna work is still ongoing, adding ground rods and re-routing cables, etc. It’s sweaty work, especially now that it has warmed considerably. 88F was the high yesterday and similar temps are expected today before thunder arrives overnight. I’ve got the HVAC guy coming out this morning for the annual A/C service and checkup. The unit is only three years old, but I prefer not to suffer any mid-season problems in miserable weather if at all possible. I booked that a few months ago, the brilliant timing was purely coincidental.

⁍ Not sure what’s churning the amateur radio antenna business these days but it seems SteppIR has decided to step out of the market for no apparent reason. Meanwhile, WiMo acquired OptiBeam Antenna Technologies.

We often joke around with the kids about how the sands of time have shifted around certain phrases or terms that were once so common they never required explanation. For instance, “turn the channel” was understood to mean turning the knob on the television to another channel. TV’s haven’t had rotatable knobs for decades. Or something like a “record machine” or “juke box” are things that cause younger generations to scratch their heads. When Donna Summer once sung “turn up the old Victrola” we all knew what she meant. We could commiserate with Jim Croce when he talked to the “operator” on the phone. Most today have no reason to understand.

And now that the life of the penny, the one-cent piece, is coming to an end, more such anomalies will be created. Thirty years from now if someone plays the song “Pennies from Heaven” or other such ditties, only the old folks will get it.

Just another throw-away phrase obviated by time passages…