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Back from blog quarantine …
Monday, May 23, 2022 Well, folks, I’m back — well, actually, my blog is back. I haven’t gone anywhere. My blog however is a different story. First, the account that hosts this blog and several […]
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FCC adds another hurdle in the licensing process
Friday, May 26, 2022 — The FCC announced today that they will begin charging a $35 fee for any Amateur Radio license application submitted to them. This includes new licenses applications from the VECs; requests […]
ham radio
Xiegu X6100: My first (and second) look …
Saturday, March 5, 2022 The Xiegu X6100 is my second Chinese-manufactured QRP transceiveer. Several years ago I bought on of the RS-918 clones transceivers, back about the time they were being frowned on because they […]
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Still off the air (sigh!) …
Friday, Aug. 27, 2021 My station remains off the air while the dipole that serves Studio C is laying on the ground. I go to the shack each evening and monitor my Georgia CW traffic […]
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It’s ham radio Christmas in Ju — er, March!
Thursday March 18, 2021 My fear of having taken an overpriced gamble turned out to be just that — a fear that today, proved unfounded. I’m talking about my recent purchase of a Hallicrafters HA-20 […]
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When it comes to Ten Tec, it pays to read (and re-read) the instructions ….
Sunday, March 14, 2021 Well, my Ten-Tec knowledge base took an sudden increase the past few days — I bought the correct memory backup battery — a 2032 — for my Ten-Tec Omni V. I […]
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Here’s to a ham radio Cyclone …
Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, 2021 We’ve finally dug out of an ice storm that shut things down for a day or two; of course, its February in the Ohio Valley, and true to form, we […]
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Sprints and CW nets don’t mix …
Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021 Tonight’s CW traffic net was brought to you by the North American CW Sprint, which made the 80 meter CW band a chaotic mess of QRM. I was running my Kenwood […]
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Rediscovering the strengths of the venerable FT-757GX …
Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020 Well, the dust has settled from Central Kentucky’s first white Christmas in a good many years. The tree will stay up through next weekend, probably longer. Being a COVID Christmas, we […]
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Always check the manual before buying rig accessories
Saturday, May 23, 2020 FILTER YOUR ENTHUSIASM. While working to have some sort of audio filtering set to work with my Yaesu FT-817 — which lacks any kind of CW filter — I also took […]