Month: May 2008

After much delibration over a possible new addition to the transceiver fleet, I'm belaying that line of thought for now due to a more pressing issue: The clutch in my tractor. The first estimate for […]

I've nearly clicked the Buy It Now button on a couple of earlier mentioned rigs — the FT-817 and the FT-100D and the Yaesu FT-450AT, but I've always decided at the last moment to wait. […]

Just finished with my NCS duties and I'm a free ham again. Static crashes from storms passing across the southern half of the state were killer in my headphones. Down in West Kentucky, several parades […]

The Magic Band was open this morning, and I made some contacts in Colorado, North Dakota and Minnesota. It was really good to hear some signals booming in via eSkip. The real question I had […]

I'm having doubts about my own sanity in regard to recent discussions surrounding Field Day. Former FCC division chief John Johnston, W3BE, wrote in his Rules & Regulations column in the May issue of World […]

I tested the Drake several more times today, and it mostly did the same thing — operated for about 4 minutes before crapping out on me. I tried several times this evening to listen to […]

MISSED MEETING. For starters, I did not attend the local club meeting has originally planned. I had NCS duties that night for a statewide net and opted to play radio instead. I began a couple […]

My new FT-757GX has officially become the keeper radio of the three Yaesu's I own. I've spent the last couple of days working on the encoder shaft. I finally was able to get the shaft […]

I don't know why, but I'm a sucker when it comes to the Yaesu FT-757GX. This HF rig was my first solid-state transceiver back in 1989, and I owned one for many years. I sold […]

The drama with the radio club continues, though things still are continuing. There's a new constitition that will be introduced and probably voted on next Monday night. The new constitution is thorough to say the […]