Two fellow Amateur Radio Operators, James – KW5CW, “Fuzi: Dave – KG5IBQ and myself – W5EHS visited the Plano Amateur Radio Klub (PARK) Field Day event. It was located in Russel Creek Park in Plano, Texas. I was once very active in this group, but work demands let me slack off active membership for about the last decade. I was publisher for the newsletter for several years at that time and created the first digital format....
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Camera Pro?
I am not a “professional” photographer. Professional means earning a living through photography. The title does not automatically indicate the “quality” of the photographs produced are any better than the “amateur” photographer can create. There is an implication that to be a “professional” one must be an excellent photographer since someone is willing to pay for your work. That is not true. Let me make this comparison: There are many “professional” race car drivers and...
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Here in Texas and in a lot of other places these days we all get severe weather. The job of the weather person is to try to scare the bejesus out of me in their reporting. Every storm is now “potentially dangerous” and is going to rip the roof of my house off or cause dangerous flooding. It’s like I have never lived through a storm and have no idea where I am living, like...
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Over the past weekend I dug out some of my old amateur radio gear and blew off the dust and wiped the grime. It was just setting on the shelf in the garage/workshop getting dirty. Some of it is my old digital packet radio equipment that I haven’t operated for years. The packet radios are mostly 2 meters (144 MHz) but I have one data transceiver that is on 440 MHz. I am not going...
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