I updated TEDEX with the newest version of its operating system. Not that a user can see any difference. But I also changed the scope of the forum. It stated out to be for nothing but metal working. Then a year ago or so I added a section about making wood chips (woodworking). Now I added a new section for another of my interests and that is Amateur Radio. The TEDEX is like an open...
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A Bit More Gloom, but Clearing…
I just got the word back on my once wonderful Ten-Tec Omni VI amateur radio transceiver. It is a total un-repairable loss. <sniff> It was a wonderful radio for fifteen years. It was totally first class back then and still very much state of the art today, but not now, just fried silicon. Ten-Tec does make the next version in the series called the Omni VII. That design is about five years old. It loses...
Continue reading...First Radio Station WN8EHS
This is way back at the beginning. The year is 1969. I am but a mere 22 years of age. A year back from my Navy tour of duty and a naval reservist, and no more than a year into my marriage. It was Chief John Petrick at the reserve center that gave me my novice exam. He was also there when I made my first QSO (contact) with K2UCE. Her card is first on the bulletin...
Continue reading...American Radio Relay League 40 Years
You know your getting old when they send you one of these. I have been a licensed amateur radio operator and a member of this association since 1969. I was about 22 years old back then. Most of the following forty years I have been a life member of this group. I think the life membership cost was 20 times the yearly dues, a lot of money back then. That was BK (before kids) but I was married to...
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