jeudi 15 février 2024

• If I had my "druthers".
  I'd be home working on building the plethora of kits I have collecting dust in my shack and also spending some quality time on HF. After 45 years of the daily grind of working full time, this is getting really old - and I'm getting really old, too. Hopefully, if God is good to me, I'll have one (...)
  
  

mercredi 14 février 2024

• The rodent lied
  So much for an early Spring: Only about 5 inches in South Plainfield, but it made the commute "special" to say the least! And now the weather prognosticators are talking about another round for this coming Saturday. Ugh. 72 de Larry W2LJ QRP - When you care to send the very (...)
  
  

dimanche 11 février 2024

• VE Session today
  The ETS of NJ VE Session was a success ! I was a bit disappointed that only six of nine candidates showed up, but a bit more on that later. The good thing was that all six candidates left with some success. We had two candidates acquire their Technician class licenses, two candidates upgraded (...)
  
  

vendredi 9 février 2024

• The Black Sheep of the Family
  If you go on Facebook at all, it quickly becomes apparent that Baofeng HTs get very little respect. They are the Rodney Dangerfields of the HT world. I understand, in a way, as they are not really comparable in any way to units produced by Kenwood, Yaesu or Icom. They may not be as technically (...)
  
  

lundi 5 février 2024

• Who knew - indeed!?!
  I came across the following post on Facebook - out of respect for the poster, I will not name names. "I guess it's a thing, now: amateur radio Morse code ops are now sending 72 at the end of a communication, instead of 73. Have they not perfected their 3 yet, or is there some secret club I'm (...)
  
  

vendredi 2 février 2024

• FYBO is tomorrow
  Tomorrow is the first Saturday in February, so that means it's FYBO time! I hope to participate for a little bit - not sure if I'll be outdoors or not. Maybe I can squeeze in a POTA activation at the same time? The Washington-Rochambeau Trail K-4582 is only a stone's throw away from my house. (...)
  
  

jeudi 1er février 2024

• Happy February!
  Is it just me - or did January fly by like the proverbial bat out of Hell? It feels like Christmas was just a couple of weeks ago! Before I bore you, a bit of Ham humor first (found on Facebook) Secondly (the boring part) - I finished customizing Ham Clock thanks to watching K2CJB's awesome (...)
  
  

mercredi 31 janvier 2024

• Got the full screen now
  The remote came yesterday and with only two or three button pushes, I now have Ham Clock filling up the screen without bleeding over the edges.. And now, when I exit full screen mode, all the buttons are visible that I need to click on to make changes, if I so desire. I'd like to customize a (...)
  
  

mardi 30 janvier 2024

• For those of you who may be looking
  for Jeff KE9V's blog posts. He changed his format a bit and if you clicked on the link I had provided, you got the dreaded "404 error message". I changed the link a little bit, but he is now positioned all the way down at the bottom of the blog roll. His new format is a lot like John K3WWPs. (...)
  
  

lundi 29 janvier 2024

• Nothing is as easy as they would have you believe
  Things must be getting a bit better as I actually had enough energy to start to configure Ham Clock yesterday afternoon. And is say "start to configure" because this is turning out to be a work in progress. None of the fault lies with Inovato however. The bundle went together quite easily and (...)
  
  

vendredi 26 janvier 2024

• 80 Meter Fox Hunt and the weekend
  Last night was my first stint as a Fox in 8 years! I went back to the QRP Fox Hunt webpage and was looking at the previous seasons. 2015 was the last time I served as a Fox. I completed applications for both the 2016 and 2017 seasons and was relegated to "Alternate" status. I gave up after (...)
  
  

lundi 22 janvier 2024

• Brrrrrr !
  This Arctic air blast which has inundated most of the country for the past week seems to be finally losing its grip. Today is the first day in a week that it's supposed to go above freezing. We have a warm up coming for the days ahead and that's just fine by me. My Amateur Radio activity was (...)
  
  

vendredi 19 janvier 2024

• Cutting back
  One of the things that I've think I've decided to do in 2024 is cut back a bit. Not Amateur Radio-wise, but more of the activities that I volunteer for. I think it's time to enjoy the actual hobby more and divest myself of some of the peripheral responsibilities. Recently elections were held (...)
  
  

jeudi 18 janvier 2024

• The weekend a day early
  Not much radio going on for me this past week. I checked into the St. Max net on Sunday evening on 75 Meters, but that's been about it. I've come home from work each evening on the exhausted side and have been hitting the sack early. It feels like this final injection that I got for my prostate (...)
  
  

mardi 16 janvier 2024

• Apollo 15
  I'm a child of the Space Age - I grew up watching the launches of Shepard, Glenn - the entire Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs are my childhood and young adulthood memories. I found this on the internet the other day. It's a film about the flight of Apollo 15 and Commander Dave Scott is one (...)