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You Can Teach an Old Seadog New Tricks
An “Extra” Sweet Victory While I may have been an #ExtraByEasterFailure, on May 18th, 2024, while with my family at Dayton’s #Hamvention, I finally passed the top-level US Amateur Radio License licensing exam. I am now, after many years, an Amateur Extra class operator. I used many resources to get here, from my experience as…
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March 30th #HamCram After Action Report
A Partial Success On March 30th, I attempted to teach a technician class, #hamcram class, here in Ripley County, Indiana. We had people from the local area, as far south as Tennesee and as far north as West Lafayette, Indiana, and eight students. Things started off well with enthusiastic students and good questions and answers.…
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#ExtraByEaster Failure
The best intentions I had every intention of getting my Amateur Extra license by Easter, but as usually happens, life happened. There is no need to share all of the details here, but several things came up yet again, and I will miss this deadline. The new plan The goal and backup goal is to…
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Getting Back Online and On the Air
After leaving regular blogging for almost a decade and succumbing to the trend of short social media, I am entering a new stage in my life where I am once again focusing on my amateur radio hobby, and I decided that I wanted to document my journey again. This website will be a work in…
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How do you find time to ham-it-up?
I find that it is sometimes very hard to have the time to get on the air. The only time/place that I can regularly get on the air in during my commute. The 112ish miles round trip in metropolitan Atlanta provide lots of time, but I am not talking about finding the time on 2M,…
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Do you Simplex?
First off I guess I should define what Simplex is. Simplex communication refers to communication that occurs in one direction only. Two definitions have arisen over time: a common definition, which is used in ANSI standard and elsewhere, and an ITU-T definition. The ITU definition of simplex is termed “half duplex” in other contexts. ANSI…
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Why I am not playing WoW right now
For a long long while I have had a on again and off again relationship with City of Heroes , decided to give it a try. Some pluses that I have found are that there is a more non-violent lean to it. No expansion packs to throw your money at. An awesome character creator, the…
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Stone Mountain Ham Fest
Spent the morning at the Stone Mountain Ham Fest. I pseudo-elmered KJ4FXQ. He passed his Technician exam back in August and still had not purchased his first rig. He got a ICOM dual band HT, I forget what model, but it was a good deal. He literally bought it right off a vendor’s belt. I…