I know the title doesn’t mean much to most folks. It is the model number of a dual band amateur radio VHF/UHF hand held transceiver. I used it a lot well before cell phones became popular. It is at least 20 years old, probably more. After the Field Day visit I decided to dig this “rig” out of the dust and spiders at the back of my junk shelf. It’s really not junk. As far as...
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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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I hooked up with an email service back in December 2014. I had added my e-commerce store to the AWS cloud and needed a way to handle the email traffic to the store. AWS has a very powerful and secure sending system I linked into using SMTP but AWS does not offer any inbound mail service. No mail boxes. I stumbled across POBOX while researching a solution. I can do just what I needed with...
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I just put a new website in the AWS (Amazon Web Service) cloud. This one is the KautzCraft site. My shared server ISP (Ixwebhosting.com) has been causing me frustration by blocking my IP address 18 plus hours while I was accessing my web site files because I was doing too much backing up of those files via FTP. I understand the issues with managing a fairly overloaded shared server with dozens of other user sites....
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