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Old Stuff; Still Works I guess it's all part of a habitual spring cleaning thing. It may also just be something old farts who can't afford to always buy new stuff do. We had a name for it back then, it was called regular preventative maintenance. It's not a terribly popular activity these days because ...
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- 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Of Birthdays And Kitchen Appliances We hit one of those relatively welcome milestones a weeks days ago. The War Department officially got old. I can't get too uppity about it though, because I added another notch in the cake about a half a year back, and my notch count is higher than hers. But birthdays are special...
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- 5 months, 2 weeks ago
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Cooper Lake Pota – W5PTX I spent a couple nights at Cooper Lake doing a POTA activation. I had a blast. I used my 7300 and an 10-40m efhw. I managed to make over 300 contacts while I was there, using SSB & FT8. Also, I made contact with every state, except one. Up yours West Virginia! lol. Completin...
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- 5 months, 4 weeks ago
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Morse Code Jewelry All, Saturday is Valentine's Day. I have never seen it before now, but Kathy stumbled across something we both thought was totally cool - A necklace with a name and/or message spelled out in Morse Code! Seriously. 😂🤣 To the right is a picture of one example. Some of you have...
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- 6 months, 4 weeks ago
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Kenwood TM-D750A Manual Hey Y'all, here is the manual for the Kenwood TM-d750a
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- 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHARLES PENRY Want to wish Charles Penry WA5VHU a Happy Birthday! 🎊🎉 🥳 We have a card we were going to pass around for everyone to sign today, we’ll do that at the next meeting. Stay warm and have a great day!
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- 7 months, 2 weeks ago
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NG frequency useage in 2 meter band In case anyone is interested in NG or military radio listening....according to https://www.radioreference.com/db/aid/4580 the NG may be using a few frequencies in the Amateur Radio 2-meter band. Amateur Radio has Primary allocation in the 144-148 MHz frequency spectrum. This migh...
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- 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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12-05-2025 – Ivermectin Without Prescription Law Takes Effect In Texas All, Earlier this year the Texas Legislature passed a bill and Governor Abbott signed it into law, allowing for Ivermectin to be sold over the counter. Knowing things are never as simple as all that I waited to make a forum post with specifics. Now this Texas Scorecard piece -...
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- 9 months ago
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FreeDV Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scS4nq1nyPg This video describes FreeDV and how to use it.
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- 9 months, 2 weeks ago
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What Desi Arnaz Could Teach Hollywood Today All, I love surprising myself, pleasantly, and then sharing that surprise with others. This has zero to do with ham radio, but I will tell you, it was educational and so I am going to post it to the General Ragchew area. It is a New York Times "Opinion - Guest Essay" by Todd S...
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- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Do I Need to Refrigerate Ketchup? An A-to-Z Guide to Storing Condiments All, I love keeping our forums content fresh. LOL I have had this piece open just waiting for a chance to post it. Since this is the General Ragchew area and since I thought this Cooking New York Times piece - Do I Need to Refrigerate Ketchup? An A-to-Z Guide to Storing Condi...
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- 9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Emergency Medical Preparedness All, Kind of following up on the quote at the meeting last Saturday (10/25/2025), where a member said "There is often a nexus between guns, preppers and ham radio." it occurred to Kathy and I that medical self-preparedness also falls into the same category. Just like my 12/23...
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- 10 months, 1 week ago
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Current ARRL Membership numbers, This questions was not answered… Mr. Charles Penry asked me what the current ARRL membership number is The current number of ARRL members as of last month is 115,952 This time last year (as of last month 2024) was 125,855 That is a loss of 9,903 members within the last 12 months of the reporting period, which...
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- 10 months, 2 weeks ago
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Sunday Morning – Fighters on Parade! All, Good Sunday morning! What better way to wake up than to get a cup of coffee and then click the link (here) and watch a batch of F22 Raptors take off, followed by a gaggle of F35 Lightnings! And for comparison, click this link (here) and watch a really nice video What it's...
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- 11 months ago
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Retirement In America Series – Wall Street Journal All, Over the last couple of years the Wall Street Journal has run quite a number of pieces related to retirement. Kathy and I subscribe and we thought they might be of interest to some of the Club as you think ahead and plan for retirement. Some of you that are already retire...
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- 11 months, 2 weeks ago
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