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Underground antennas
While researching the W8NYY call sign written in the 1937 ARRL Handbook I picked up, I came across a NOARS (Northern Ohio Amateur Radio Society) newsletter from March 2019 with a column by W8GWD answering a question about underground antennas. In it, he references an article from a March 1948 QST (a typo in the newsletter gives it as May 1948) by Paul Cornell/W8EFW who wrote about his…
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1937 ARRL Handbook
A 1937 ARRL Handbook with a distinctive orange cover is now part of the collection. It’s in relatively decent shape for its age, although the cover has become unglued from the spine, so I’ll need to glue it back on at some point. The call sign W8NYY is written on the front cover, and on the inside front page is the former owner’s name and call sign, Lloyd H. Miller W8NYY. A quick Google search…
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Dexcom Stelo teardown
A couple months ago, I decided to try out the Dexcom Stelo blood glucose biosensor to get near-realtime feedback about my blood glucose levels (more about that in a future blog post, probably). These are small plastic devices about 23 mm x 27 mm that are supposed to last about 15 days. After they’re spent, you take it off and replace it with a fresh sensor. Dexcom Stelo blood glucose…
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Advent of Code 2024
Advent of Code is a fun set of Christmas themed programming puzzles that has been going on from December 1 through December 25 for the past 10 years now. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. Advent of Code/About For 9 of those years, I’ve been following the puzzles and thinking “I…
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Rescued slide rule case
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On the air for SKYWARN Recognition Day 2024
I had the 7-10 AM shift with Tom AJ4UQ at the NWS Charleston office for SKYWARN Recognition Day 2024. Tom was already there when I arrived, and mentioned the previous shift was having SWR issues with the HF radio and antenna. Stations were really quiet and they weren’t able to make any HF contacts. The HF antenna is a ground mounted Butternut vertical. After the sun came up a little more, we…
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SKYWARN Recognition Day 2024
It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to participate in SKYWARN™ Recognition Day. This year I’ll be on the air once again helping out with activating the National Weather Service Charleston office (WX4CHS) Saturday morning (December 6). This year marks the 25th year of SKYWARN™ Recognition Day. Should be a fun time.
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October garden update
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A Jalapeno Harvest
Picked a few jalapenos today. There are a bunch of them on the jalapeno plants in various stages of growth. These were a pretty decent size and colour and looked ready for picking. Also spotted a new butternut squash starting to grow. Hopefully this one sticks around.
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Etherkit Goodies
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SC QSO Party 2024 results
Just saw that the SC QSO Party 2024 results are available. According to the results, W4BXC had 115 QSOs, 58 multipliers, 29 counties, scoring 21498 points (including 850 bonus points). Looks like 4 QSOs got busted or something. That got us to 13th place in the Phone only category. This year’s SCQP had a total of 406 logs submitted and 27468 QSOs this year. Next edition of the SC QSO party is…
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Tobacco hornworm
Found a bunch of these big fat green caterpillars monching away on the jalapeno plants. Google image search identified them as tobacco hornworms (manduca sexta). Plucked about 6 of hornworms off the jalapeno plants (they have a pretty good grip for something so squishy) and flung them out into the road where at least 3 of them ended up getting squashed by passing traffic. The caterpillars…
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CW key collection: Begali Camelback
The Begali Camelback is the newest addition to my straight key collection. I had been wanting to get a Begali straight key for a while and finally got one at Hamcation last year. Begali Camelback straight key If any company can lay claim to being the Cadillac of CW key makers, I’d say it would be Begali. The Camelback isn’t their most expensive key, but it’s still beautifully made and crafted.…
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