technology
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Laptop Woes
I’m back – mostly. My laptop deserted me and it’s taken a few days to put things back together. As a “getting back to the blog” event, I’ll share my blunders and leave it to you to pick the lessons… Continue reading
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US-6553 Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site
I love my Ham Club, the Grayson County Amateur Radio Club K5GCC, but I’m not much of a meeting guy. The meetings are fantastic, well organized, informative, and the people are great to be around, but the monthly meeting runs… Continue reading
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IC-706MK IIG
Mike – Tips, tricks, and what I learned about your rig are below. The rest of you can move along… unless you have and IC-706. Auto Repeater pg 32 and 53This is a function that sets repeater shift automatically. You… Continue reading
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240518-20 Weekend POTA
Note: The image for this post is from the word Press AI. You just click a button, and it whips up an image based on the content of the post. I have no idea what those antennas are and I… Continue reading
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240511@US-3005 Eisenhower State Park
Every app and webpage I frequent said the bands would be noisy and closed and they were not wrong. But I went anyway. A slow day in the park beats any day at work, right? Turns out, HF bands weren’t… Continue reading
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20240510@US-3005 Eisenhower State Park
A beautiful Friday, sunny and about 80 – there won’t be many more like this and I’m glad I got out to a park. I tried Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge but found it under water from the recent rains. Really… Continue reading
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Embrace diversity!
We have this common draw, this shared fascination, a compulsion for some, that is amateur radio. In this world of instantly accessible and freely shared information, it’s so natural to burrow into a path of complete focus, hyper-focus. Ever notice… Continue reading
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240505@US-0548 Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge
I wrapped the weekend with a final activation on Sunday at US-0548 Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge. A typical activation, typical for this weekend because it was dark and drizzly driving in but I single handedly changed the weather North Texas… Continue reading
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240504, Weekend POTA: US-6553 and US-2991
I missed a weekend of radio and I feel it. Last weekend, I drove down to Clifton to shoot a Sporting Clays tournament with some good friends. It was a great time; travel, catching up with friends, and punctuated with… Continue reading
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Adjusting Portable Antenna Length
We learned to calculate wave length from frequency for the Technician ticket. Or at least, we memorized the questions and answers for the test. At the time, I thought it was an interesting tidbit of information but not critical to… Continue reading
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