Today, June 24th, 2010 we put the house up for sale.  Actually we did on June 21st but the sign was placed in the yard today.  We have worked for a long time to get it ready to sell so we can move to another place.  This is a mixed feeling moment since we [...]

On February 6, 2010 the K5GLH tower came down.  This is the tower that hosted the 443.3 MHz repeater (WIN System).  This was a move that had nothing to do with the Del City Amateur Radio club but rather to help facilitate the sale of my home.  As I have posted before, we are planning [...]

In our preparation to sell our home we have been trying to restore the house to a sellable condition including taking down my ham radio tower.  Today was supposed to be the day that it was taken down and sold.  Unfortunately the buyer could not come out today so it will have to wait until [...]

Wow!  I just witnessed my beloved neighbors screaming obscenities at each other so loud that I could hear it over my television.  I am a bad person because I enjoyed every minute of it.  A while back my neighbor and I got into a shouting match over his spilling oil into the street in front [...]

You may remember last week I posted about a storm that came through and caused some damage around my dad’s house along with mine.  This storm caused a lot of hail damage to my car, bent the repeater antenna on my tower and also on my dad’s tower.  I just did not have the time, [...]

  I have been off work the last couple of days because I have poison ivy from cutting down some trees at my dad’s place.  Since I usually have to go to bed early because I have to be at work early, I usually miss out on the good storms.  Last night around 10:45 PM [...]

As a resident of Del City it is easy to become excited and also distraught with some of the changes going on.  For those not familiar with Del City, it is a suburb of about 25,000 people completely surrounded by Oklahoma City, Midwest City, and Tinker AFB.  This city use to be about 30,000 before [...]

I took this photo at the corner of Sunnylane Road at Reno Avenue in Del City, Oklahoma in the 35 degree cold wind.  This is the OG&E power plant that feeds my house with electricity.  This busy picture has been a description of our lives the last couple years.  With trying to go to school [...]

For those of you in Oklahoma City, you know what a windy day we had yesterday.  The National Weather Service had a graphic on their page that showed Oklahoma City’s peak wind gust was 54 miles per hour (MPH).  The wind was howling all day as fires sprung up around the metro.  We were just [...]

This weekend the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) sent out an upgrade that would vastly improve the audio from node to node.  This update changed out two files, the imike, and ispeaker.  This allows nodes to connect to each other with uncompressed audio making an incredible audio quality.  This increase in audio quality also increased [...]