Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Nice Day Today

Wel today Don & Me Had Breakfast At the truck stop.ham and eggs biscuts & gravy ah is good with hash browns.The 160 meter 1/2 wave dipole is up and working real good 1st contact wasVE3GRG and WB9ECK,Bob helped me set up on AM 1.980 and looked at the signal on his scope i was running about 400 watts pep and had a good signal.I spliced in 4 feet on each leg and lowered the resonant point to midband,life is good.75% f today and its not april yet...

Sunday, March 27, 2005

CQWPX

Well today the Cqwpx contest is winding down,what a hectic weekend,lots of contacts,good DX and i am almost finished with my new ``homebrew`` 160 meter 1/2 wave dipole and its nice out to...

Saturday, March 19, 2005

St. Patricks Day

Well Don(N9RRG) and me sure had a nice supper on Saint Patricks day at the pantheon in portage.Corn beef & cabbage & all the goodies.

Saturday, March 12, 2005

Club Meeting(3-11-05)

What a nice meeting we had last night at the Lake County Amateur Radio Club.I liked the program by Gene Wiggins,very good and of course i liked the primerib and grilled shrimp Gene (w9gdk),Toby (n9fdf) & me had at the outback.Ah...Life is good...Good DX es 73 de kb9ygd