I just wanted to take this time to give an update on what we have been up to over the last week or so.  We have finally settled into our new apartment and put everything away. I still find myself turning down streets toward the other house and have to catch myself.  It is hard [...]

Yesterday, June 12, 2010 I uploaded the delcityarc.org site to a new server. It was actually a downgrade and I did it for two reasons. 1. The site does not require all the bells and whistles that my personal site does. 2. Price! I have hosted the site on Godaddy.com for the last three years [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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, [...]

This morning I woke up to go to work and was still itching pretty bad though you could barely see it.  This evening when I came home from work I noticed something was different.  No itching at all!  After four and a half weeks it is finally on its way out and all I can [...]

This weekend I bought myself a new toy and boy do I love it.  This goes right along with things that I speak about all the time and that is the Internet and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP).  This new toy is a Grace wireless Internet Radio that uses wifi, 802.11 b, or g to connect [...]

  Today, December 26, 2008 I was going to install this Wifi antenna on my ham radio antenna at 40 feet above ground.  I decided against installing this antenna today because the South wind is blowing at 30+ miles per hour (MPH).  I do not want to be up on an antenna while the wind [...]