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First death reported from meat allergy caused by tick bite (November 13, 2025) All, I recently read First death reported from meat allergy caused by tick bite (November 13, 2025) and passed it along to Kathy. Wow...unreal. After making the previous post Ticks & Lyme Disease, two Wall Street Journal articles on the topic back in July I had planned to ...
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- 10 months, 3 weeks ago
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Officials to discuss possible relocation of Paris’ Eiffel Tower… All, I was a bit surprised to see the headline Officials to discuss possible relocation of Paris’ Eiffel Tower to downtown area (MyParisTexas | November 5, 2025). That tower is a real attention getter, we even use it on Club QSL cards. Kathy and I live in Fannin County so we d...
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- 11 months, 1 week ago
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Roy Floyd Passing All, I never met Roy Floyd, he was already pretty much a celebrity by the time Kathy and I moved up here 27 years ago. But I heard his name, all the time, so when I saw the headline that he had passed I was sad for the community. These media reports Bonham mourns loss of Roy F...
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- 11 months, 1 week ago
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183 MILLION email passwords were exposed in a leak…including Gmail All, There was a big password breach that might affect you: 183M email passwords exposed in data leak — including millions of Gmail accounts — here’s how to check if yours is safe (NY Post 10/27/2025) and Gmail Passwords Confirmed Within 183 Million Account Infostealer Leak (F...
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- 11 months, 1 week ago
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Ticks & Lyme Disease, two Wall Street Journal articles on the topic All, Lyme Disease is a hideous illness. I have recently read a pretty thorough Wall Street Journal piece on the topic of ticks - Ticks Are Really Bad This Summer. What to Do About Them - and now this follow on article - Chronic Lyme Disease Was Once Dismissed. More Doctors Are...
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- 11 months, 2 weeks ago
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Jo Ann Keith KA5AZK of the 7290 Traffic Net will do a Training session…….. I highly recommend attending this For details see the FB post here........ https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BHJQTNxHS/ cheers! Steve KG5VK
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- 11 months, 2 weeks ago
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Sharpie Found a Way to Move Manufacturing Back to the U.S. All, It admittedly has zero to do with ham radio, but I still wanted to post up the Wall Street Journal article Sharpie Found a Way to Make Pens More Cheaply—By Manufacturing Them in the U.S.. It is a feel-good article on a topic near and dear to me - Can we really on-shore man...
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- 1 year ago
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Scammers Trying To Take Your Money All, My dad fell for an online scam. It happens to everyone. Here are two stories, Lamar County Sheriff’s Office warns of phone scam and Cowboys great Emmitt Smith in court tangle as victim of alleged Ponzi scheme. If it doesn't sound right, it probably isn't. If it sounds to...
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- 1 year ago
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ARRL Files Comments to Protect 70-Centimeter Amateur Band ARRL Files Comments to Protect 70-Centimeter Amateur Band 07/22/2025ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to oppose part of an application that would impact the 70-centimeter amateur band for telemetry...
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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ARRL Announced News from the ARRL Board of Directors meeting July 2025 meeting Just a Note for those of you that are Not signed up to Receive the ARRL News Member Bulletins by email) and a few of my comments on this. A few notes on my Thoughts IOW Read between the lines -------------------------------------------------- There are some pretty serious BOD Ch...
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- 1 year, 2 months ago
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Part 2 of 2 – Was It Scrap Metal or an Alien Spacecraft? All, OK, this is the Part 2 from Part 1 - The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology - that I have been waiting for and which I posted two weeks ago. There is a little bit of everything here. Published by Wall Street Journal today: Was It Scrap Metal or a...
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- 1 year, 3 months ago
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A Battery That Lasts 50% Longer Is Finally in Production All, Some of the news I post here isn't at all related to ham radio, but it I think it is of general interest. With our resident battery expert Jerry Keisler I rarely go anywhere else but him with a battery question. Now this Wall Street Journal article - A Battery That Lasts ...
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- 1 year, 3 months ago
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National Weather Service confirms EF-1 tornado in Bonham on Sunday night All, The MyPARISNEWS.COM website is carrying a story published yesterday, June 13, that says NWS confirms EF-1 tornado in Bonham on Sunday night. Details in the article are extensive, including mention of Fix N Feed, Braum's and numerous other churches and locations where appar...
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- 1 year, 3 months ago
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The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology All, I periodically get asked if I have ever seen a "UFO"? In my flying career I have seen a couple of things that were odd, but nothing that I would characterize as definitively a flying saucer or otherworldly. If asked my opinion about the whole topic (UFO's, intelligent lif...
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- 1 year, 4 months ago
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Sun Launches Its Strongest Solar Flare of the Year So Far, Causing Radio Blackou All, Following up on Jerry's post, on May 16 the Smithsonian magazine published Sun Launches Its Strongest Solar Flare of the Year So Far, Causing Radio Blackouts Around the World. The follow-on sub-headline said The new sunspot responsible for this powerful blast is rotating i...
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- 1 year, 4 months ago
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