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Club Member Gary Sorensen (K9AIA) Health Update All, I have a medical update on Club member Gary Sorensen (K9AIA). Gary has not been well the last couple of weeks and yesterday he was admitted to the hospital in Hereford, TX. This morning he was transferred to the hospital in Amarillo, TX. His nephew Jason is there with him a...
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Brookshire’s & Kroger eggs recalled over salmonella concerns All, Earlier today Nexstar Media, via THE HILL, published a story Nearly 1.6 million cartons of eggs recalled over salmonella concerns: Full list of products impacted by Addy Bink - 07/23/26 9:33 AM ET. From that story: Nearly 1.6 million white and brown eggs have been recalled...
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Automotive Tissue Rejection We bought the car ten years ago. We bought it used. (There’s no way on God’s green earth I would have paid for a new one. new Volvos are dire!) The original owner purchased it in the Dallas Ft. Worth area, and that’s where it spent the first half of it’s life. It had never been w...
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in: General Ragchew
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Never Forget The Prime Rule About Computers (A bit of nonsense.) A cautionary tale. It was just after sundown on a Friday night. It was coming into a long weekend, but the report needed to be on the boss's desk tonight. No one knew exactly why, that's just the way it was. Blaming it on an over-inflated administrative ego wouldn't have been to...
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Tower Climber List All, I am going to start a list of tower climbers. I periodically get asked if I know of one so I figured we may as well start up a list. I am not warranting that they will do a job for you, vouching for them in any way as far as their reliability, etc. This is just a list....
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in: Hardware (Buying? Selling? Question?)
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The Master Channel Plan (For events and Emergency Operations) Just what it says. The long awaited Master Channel Plan --- subject to shakedown cruise adjustments. If you have suggestions, either contact me directly or list them (along with rationale) here. Thank you!
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The AR for Home Defense: One Expert’s Choice All, Since this is the General Ragchew area I am going to add something a little unorthodox. Through the years I have had a lot of people ask me what is the best "defensive" firearm. My standard reply is the one that is with you. It doesn't do you any good if you are here, ha...
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- 4 months, 1 week ago
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- 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Generations defined by name, birth year, and ages in 2025 All, Have you heard of Gen Z? I know you have heard of "Baby Boomers", what about Millennials? This chart (credit https://www.beresfordresearch.com/age-range-by-generation/) shows all of them: Their research, "Generations defined by name, birth year, and ages in 2025" and l...
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- 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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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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- 4 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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- 4 months, 2 weeks ago
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Ice Storm 01-24-2026 All, Mid-morning with a significant ice accumulation Kathy was headed outside to put out birdseed and then head over to our shopdominium. The birdseed is in a galvanized trashcan in the back yard and we have it chained shut to keep the racoon and opossum out of it. The little ...
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in: Educational – Graphics/Photos/Diagrams
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- 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Ice Storm 01/24/2025 All, As of 0800 we have had sporadic reports of some of our members being without power. Here is a Grok Artificial Intelligence report for Red River, Hopkins, Lamar, Fannin or Collin County Texas: https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg_ebcabddd-d1b5-45f8-a9e2-ae45e7c238cc Updated ...
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- 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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Cool Tool – Stanley Jobmaster 84-205 All, A few years ago I stumbled across one of those crazy tools that any real "handyman" would find useful. Here is the setup. Have you ever needed to shorten a screw? One example might be putting knobs on kitchen or bathroom cabinet doors. You snug the handle/knob down on t...
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- 9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Building The Double Bazooka — aka, Instructions and shopping list This is imported straight from my QRZ page, so if errors turn up, just call me on the 2 meter or email me and I'll fix it. (Please note this design was purely my own and any failures should be attributed to me, not the original antenna design or designers. ) Dan's Doubl...
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