This is a subject I haven’t discussed in Ramblin’ Dan. I have been an amateur radio operator for almost 40 years. I was first licensed as a Novice in 1969. I was permitted to operate a 75 watt (input) crystal controlled transmitter, Morse radio code only. My call was WN8EHS. I am now W5EHS. Just the year before I became a “ham”, I had come off active duty in the Navy and married my sweetheart...
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The THMS BLOG
The Hobbyist Machine Shop has its own blog. Here is a view of the static home page. From this page are links to the THMS web site and all the blog entries concerning the the machine and home workshop activities. The heading picture is a slightly stylized real picture of my original mini lath turning down a piece of cast iron with a little oil on it. The “smoke trails from the hot chips make a very...
Continue reading...The Split is Acomplished
There is now a division between Ramblin’ Dan and The Hobbyist’s Machine Shop postings. I have split off almost all the material within Ramblin’ Dan that was directed to my activities in the machine and work shop. There is a link to that information in the right hand column under Dan’s Retreats labeled A THMS Blog. I may eventually have the URL for the THMS web site point to the blog rather than the website....
Continue reading...North Texas Hobby Board (or Blog)
I sent emails to the posted contact persons for two (as they identify themselves) North Texas home machinist groups. Neither post that they have a web site, just a contact email. I offered to create a free message system (either a Blog or BBS) for North Texas home machinists to contact each other. I don’t intend to start another organization, just a common communication site, since they do not seem to have one. My involvement...
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