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Never Suggest YouTube “How to” Content to Customers
I’m writing to former associates and clients who have in the past expressed appreciation for my professional knowledge and experience. As a happy paying customer, I abhor receiving links to idiots on youtube. I’ve found no more efficient waste of time or disastrous to comprehension means of falling further into problems with no help in…
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Ham Radio – Two Exams?
From the Forums on QRZ.COM… PROPOSED: Only 2 Amateur Radio License Classes — A Response to the FCC and an Invitation to Discuss https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/proposed-only-2-amateur-radio-license-classes-a-response-to-the-fcc-and-an-invitation-to-discuss.950837/ Maybe this notion would be helpful… Tests and grow the hobby into online schooling. Should we perhaps, keep up with the world a bit? In the age of Google and AI…
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Absolutely Wrong
Certainty is central to problems we currently face as politics mixes with religion, science denialism and deliberate ignorance abound. Thoughts on the weakness of great power: Certitude. A ton of smarter people have been writing about this quite a bit recently. Grace, tolerance and empathy should not need defending let alone promotion. In Cinema, “Conclave”…
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Linux Mint Upgraded – v22.1
Straight ahead, a longish process… Awesome results. Cinnamon v20.1 through Virginia and Wilma to Xia v22.1 First deck took 3-1/2 hours. Very sweet Lenovo IdeaPads – 1Tb SATAs, 16Gb DDR ram. (wow, that’s an immense load of cpu cycles.) #1 went all the way through, flawless. Including paring away a bunch of orphaned packages. #2…
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A Short History: Why Amateur / Ham Radio?
Experiences with tsunami evacuations on the Oregon Coast drive my gradual shift towards preparedness.
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Validating The NanoVNA
Calibration and validation of the NanoVNA – Antenna / Vector Network Analyzer.
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Project Tailgate
Commencing 3/2025: “Project Tailgate.” Which is – Poking around adjacent counties, collecting “Scenic Treasures“. Plan is to visit the sites, photograph our offgrid setups to document being there, while calling CQ on 40m / 7285kHz or 20m / 14285kHz, QRP. 10 sites in 10 Counties? Earns a “Ranger” badge! LOL, okay? It’s for fun, anyway……
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