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Since having my U/V radio I have been having doubts if it was actually transmitting. The repeater 1/2 mile away won’t receive due to Milton and my radio can only receive on the next repeater 53 miles away. We grabbed my Baofeng 10w and me and another friend performed a field

Last night of my 3 days off I fired up a Candela green cigar. Very successful 3 days I must say. Got the mod done on my new 10m radio and got it all hooked up. Went to my radio club meeting. Got ground planes ordered for 2 of my antennas and I performed a very successful test of

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First of 2 ground planes arrives Friday from Walcott Radio. The second one comes from the UK so it may be a while.

Coming Friday and will make an already awesome A99 antenna even better. Soon 3 of my 4 antennas will have ground planes.

Sitting here with my coffee and cigar contemplating everything I have learned in Amateur radio. This time last year I had no clue about SWR, Types of Radio, Bands, Coax numbers, Dummy loads, etc. I’d be lying if I didn’t admit it’s been a struggle at times, actually a lot of

Ground plane for my little GMRS base antenna. We are going ground plane crazy 🤪 here at the station…now all 4 verticals will have one.

It always starts with just one 😎

Someone explain to me why a small radio club needs to be sitting on 18000 dollars of cash. Seems like a lot to me.

Well got some good news at work today 2 part time positions opened up at the health care company I work for but different location which is closer to home so hopefully I can semi-retire finally. Just have to decide between 4 four hour days or 2 eight hour days. I am leaning

So it’s times like right now when we get a minor storm that lasted about 8 minutes why is it that everything else on planet earth has advanced from the 1800s except how electricity is delivered to homes… the same wooden pole technology.

Good news both my applications to move to part-time have been approved…next is the interview which since I already work for the company should be just a formality. Then I just pick which shift I want.

My Solarcon A99 ground plane arrives today!

Summer doesn't stand a chance.

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Got some LMR400 coming. Might as well switch out the RG58 while I am switching antennas.