While we have had our (new to us) 2015 Travel Trailer since the middle of March, the only way to make darn sure everything works is to actually take it out and *use* it. I was able to get reservations at the Santee Lakes Park, Preserve, and Campground from 1 PM, April 22nd, 2019 – 12 PM, April 26th in […]
Please note: The work for this post actually occurred on April 11th, 2019. That big chunk of cold-rolled steel is pretty heavy, and needs to be protected. Additionally, outdoors you have to deal with wind, something new to my grilling experience. Ordered the new Hood from Amazon and it arrived the very next day. At about 1545, an Amazon delivery […]
I actually started this work on Sunday, April 7th, 2019 and am just now updating the old blog. Upon receiving our new griddle from Amazon, I was very excited, but knew it would be a spell before I would be able to actually start cooking on it. The first thing I had to locate was an old camp cooking table […]
Note: I actually ordered the griddle on the 5th of April, 2019, and am only now catching up and updating the old blog. As a young man in High School, I went to work as a cleanup boy for “B&H Burgers” in Norwalk, CA for the sole purpose of earning enough money to buy/maintain a car. Eventually I was able […]
Note: Knew I was in for a busy few weeks, want to point out the subject matter of this post actually happened near the end of March and preceded the last post. I have already played with boiling and baking in our, (still fairly new), All American Sun Oven – but have never tried using it as a dehydrator. Time […]
Last month, (March, 2019), we bought a 2015 Forrest River Salem Cruise Lite Travel Trailer, Model T231RKXL to replace our old 1996 5th Wheel. (We still have the old one, slowly transferring all of our “gear” into the new one that will fit). The old one is just over 30′ long, all of which is livable space, and the new […]
Well we finally got off the carousel and purchased the one Solar Oven design I had literally wanted for what seems forever – a “Sun Oven”, which I have considered to be the absolute *best* of the “Box” style solar ovens. Back in the 1980’s the original Sun Oven was designed by a retired restraunteer named Tom Burns – here […]
I am rebuilding a post from 2017 that was lost after the old blog was hacked/infected. In early 2017, I kept seeing YouTube videos and post from other Amateur Radio Operators about using relatively inexpensive boom microphones and foot switches of more than just reasonable quality – they were all very pleased with the results. I am always alert for […]
Sorta kinda. Today, “Arduino” is an “open source computer hardware and software company, project, and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical and digital world.” (That long definition was blatantly borrowed from Wikipedia, and happens to be one I agree […]
OK, so last September I decided to see what I could learn about Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) as my first incursion into the digital voice part of the Amateur Radio Hobby. This was primarily a financially driven decision and there were several relatively inexpensive DMR handhelds that were on the market. Other digital voice radios include DStar, (primarily ICOM), System […]