I am referring to my garden of websites. I have planted quite a few through the years and some of them were not growing. They just took up valuable space in my little plot of the Internet. Now it’s time to cut out the dead wood and allow space (and my time) to helping the good plants grow. An old weed was one was my BBS websites TEDEX and renamed POSTEX. All it was doing was attracting flies to its...
Continue reading...Very and Ultra Radio Active
I am back on VHF and UHF amateur radio again. My old equipment, an Icom IC-24AT proved out to be a totally dead cat. (Sorry cat lovers, but it happens.) I had to get a new one. The small hand held “Handy Talkies” or Handheld Transceivers (HT) have gained a lot of “features” since the late nineteen hundreds when I purchased the Icom. A plain old HT radio only, no longer exists. The long standing Yeasu FT-60...
Continue reading...Strange Culture
From my observation and experience I think I understand a little more about the nature of human communication. There is a large group of us who are outspoken and like to speak up and be heard and identified by others. Some of that group are well educated and intelligent although the two terms are NOT synonymous. Another portion will just say or write anything to be recognized. The remaining few are pure babbling idiots. I am...
Continue reading...Amateur Radio thoughts 2015
Local ham radio friends have been stirring the embers of previously low fire ham radio interests. I am still active running a digital mode called PSK31 on the short wave bands but otherwise not as extremely active as I once have been. It’s mostly because of my many other interests. There wasn’t time for all my interests when I was working 12 hour work days. I did enjoy a night’s sleep when I could work...
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