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 [...]

  When I was a kid my dad was active on ham radio calling CQ CQ CQ from K5GLH.  I grew up hearing that call over and over as he would speak to people all over the country.  Later when he upgraded to his Amateur Extra Class license he changed his call sign.  When I [...]

It is hard to find anything more pleasing than a nice morning sunrise when you do not have to go to work.  The beauty of my situation this morning is that it is the end of the year and I have some use or lose vacation time that I have to burn so I took [...]

Today is a special day for amateur radio operators.  You may have heard them referred to as ham radio operators.  I have been a licensed ham radio operator since I was 17 years old in 1983.  Today being the last Saturday of the month of June makes this a day that many hams look forward [...]

This weekend Larry, KD5MAF and I worked on getting our two Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) nodes set up on our repeaters.  We already had them installed but we found a vulnerability.  These ham radio repeaters are set up to require a sub audible tone to be on the carrier or they will not respond [...]

In life you sometimes have to accept some difficult facts whether you want to or not.  I often want to think the most of my home town as a growing and great place to live.  This is very true in most ways but in the world of Ham Radio, we are beyond hillbillies.  We have [...]

Man what a busy weekend.  As I posted in the last post about what all we got done with our ham radio repeater.  After that, I got three school lessons done.  We already have next weekend scheduled because we are going to install the IRLP to the 145.25 repeater like we did this weekend.  My [...]

I had high hopes for this week.  I was off for July 4th and I took of the 5th and 6th using vacation time.  I had planned on working on my school work and getting ahead so I would not be behind like I was in the last unit.  Well that did not pan out [...]

K5GLH antenna Hosted on Zooomr This weekend, Larry, KD5MAF and myself installed the new Alpha Delta DX-LB Plus HF dipole antenna.  You can see it hangin off the tower at the 50 foot level on the left.  It took us until nearly 10:00 pm last night to get it installed.  The antenna has three elements [...]

I am trying to decide on a multiband dipole antenna for my HF radio.  I have very limited room on my property.  My yard is only 65 feet at the widest point and my neighbor has a large tree that hangs over into my yard.  I have a G5RV up there that works fine but [...]