Last night I joined in my first multi-person Google+ Hangout and it was a blast.  I was invited in by another Amateur Radio operator, Jim, KA6QZU.  The Hangout was called “Ham Radio Nightly Hangout” and eventually others joined the group.  He told me their group has these meetings online every night at 9:00 PM, central time.  Usually I [...]

Last night around midnight I was listening to 20 meters when I stumbled on LY37LY in Lithuania.  I was using a Kenwood TS-2000 with a GAP Titan DX antenna at 100 watts.  Just for the heck of it, I threw out my call sign knowing he would not hear me and he answered me back.  [...]

As I have posted on here before, I just installed my new GAP Titan DX antenna at our new home.  I made this video with my iPhone to show some of the signals that I was hearing.  On this video I am scrolling my Kenwood TS-2000 radio across the band on 40 meters, 75 meters [...]

Those of you that have been following this blog will remember that I have had my ham radio gear in storage for nearly two years.  My wife and I decided two years ago that we wanted to move into a more desirable neighborhood where we would have more room.  During this process, I had to [...]

Since I do not have my ham radio gear, and do not live in Del City anymore, I had to improvise to be able to talk on the Del City ARC repeaters.  As most of you know, we sold our Del City home in July 2010.  All of my ham radio gear went into storage [...]

There is a battle that goes quietly with no fanfare and is being ignored among leaders in our country.  This battle is the existence of Home Owners Associations (HOA) and covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&R). The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) needs to listen up because this affects all ham radio operators.  If you are [...]

If you are one of those technology enthusiasts like I am, you may watch or listen to This Week in Tech (TWiT). I was listening yesterday, March 27, 2011, when they had Bob Heil on as a special guest on one of their podcasts called Triangulation. They use his microphones on the TWiT podcasts so [...]

I found this advertisement on Youtube for my first computer.  In 1983 I was 17 years old and I saved my limited money to buy this Commodore VIC-20 computer.  I was the envy of my neighborhood.  Not only was I the only person in my neighborhood to have a computer but I was the only [...]

For those that follow my posts both on my web site and on the Del City Amateur Radios Club’s web site, I need to let you know that www.delcityarc.org domain is about to expire in July.  This domain is going to be moved to another provider over the coming weeks so it may be unavailable [...]

What an amazing week.  A week ago it was a sad day when I had my tower taken down and sold.  The WIN System antenna was placed on my dad’s (W5QO) tower about 1/2 mile North of here.  The 443.3 repeater is back on the air at this new location with the antenna mounted on [...]