One of the decisions that has to be made by individual hams upon moving to a different Amateur Radio Region is whether or not to update their call signs to reflect their new region. Heidi and I both had “Vanity Call Signs” in California, W6HPY and W6TUX respectively. After thinking it through, we elected to go ahead and request new […]
Last September I announced that Heidi and I had a major new project underway – now, December 2020, that project is very near fruition. Last November, 2019, we discovered that the city of El Cajon’s planning commission had authorized construction of an apartment building, and although we lived in the COUNTY, it was to be built just over ONE block […]
Hello there, I am not at liberty to “reveal” the nature of our major project already in progress. We expect it to be completed by October 31st this year, after which I will most certainly provide what we have been up to. Sorry for being so sketchy, but Internet Security being what it is – sketchy is the only way […]
Sunday afternoon, 9 August 2020 and I finally gave it a try. Yes Granny, you can cook beans in a pressure cooker now, but you *really* want to remember to add a little oil to the pot to help control frothing. Put in some Chili powder, Garlic powder, just a tiny dusting of Cumin, then added a half cup of […]
As if we didn’t already have enough means to cook food right? 😀 So I picked up one of these off of Amazon: I actually set out to purchase the smallest GSI pressure cooker available, but it turns out that is now somewhere around 2.9 Litres which is a little large for my purposes. Had a “Schnapps Idea” that I […]
Here is a *very* easy little DIY ham project for Radio Direction Finding (RDF). Credit should be given to the Tri-City Amateur Radio Club P.O. BOX 552 Groton, CT 06340 – for their “Simple Loop Antenna for RDF“, in particular the idea to cut away a section of a 1/2” PVC “T” connector to make it easier to mount the […]
I actually did this project back in July of 2018, but our Granddaughter was very close to giving birth to our first Great Grandchild, (who actually came to us on 2 August of that year). While the narrative is written in “current” form, I am merely copying/pasting from my old notes taken on a computer while the project was still […]
Typing this blog entry on the 1st of July, 2020. The first half of this year has been strange indeed, due primarily to something we referred to originally as a new Coronavirus coming out of China and now popularly called “Covid-19”. About all I have to say on it at this point is to ask when did “Chicken Little” get […]
I have been kind of bragging on Jason KM4ACK and his Build a Pi project in this blog for a spell now. The project has had its difficulties, primarily technical surprises, but as of this morning June 23rd, 2020 – I predict that most of those have been overcome and the largest problem with Ham radio operators using it on […]
One of the most severe limits on Raspian/Raspberry Pi OS was having to boot the Raspberry pi computer from a (relatively slow) Micro SD card. One of the “work-arounds” has been to use something like “Bootberry 2.0” on the SD Card and through it, install multiple operating systems on a Solid State Drive (SSD) connected via USB. On June 15th, […]