Bikerscum - Patrick St. Jean

  Another book about motorcycle adventure, this one covering the trials of a privateer team attempting the Dakar Rally more »

I finally got around to setting up the 2m/70cm vertical that I bought almost two years ago. It's now in the attic, at about 30 feet, being fed by about 40 feet of LMR-400. I've tested it on both 2m and 70cm and it's getting out with no SWR problems and… more »

I managed to break the feed line for my APRS station's antenna, it disconnected from the connector while I was loading the Jeep up for the drive up to Illinois in December. I've been a little bit of a slacker and haven't gotten around to fixing it. Wel… more »

Getting this to compile was a little tough. There's a few things to do in order to build it. First, in tqsllib and TrustedQSL, you'll need to edit the 'configure' scripts in both directories. In each one you'll need to change the library paths for z… more »

It arrived this morning, and I've powered it up, done a full reset, and started programming repeaters in. I'm thinking I'm going to have to get ahold of someone with a better antenna because this thing just can't consistently hit repeaters that it shoul… more »

It's official. I'm a jinx. I put together the new Windows XP machine last night out of a spare Athlon 2000+ that I had laying around. Well, I powered it up this morning to finish patching it and the CPU let the magic smoke out. Literally smoked the C… more »

If you're selling an ICOM T-81A, I'm looking for one. The 1.2GHz bug has bitten and this one will take the place of my current HT and give me two more bands at the same time. more »

Since it's the first of the month and I'm a little bored, here's some of my favorite books: Astronomy Mike Weasner's excellent Using the Meade ETX HAM Radio The ARRL Repeater Directory The ARRL HF Digi… more »

Today was spent shopping at Ham-Com. I needed to pick up some small parts to get my last few antennas set up. So I've now picked up an MFJ-916BN duplexer, a couple N connectors, some Power Poles, and some 10 ga. power cable. Now I've just got to run… more »

HAMSAT was launched today and should be operational by June. It's going to be mode B, but since it's not showing up on Heavens Above yet, I don't know if there are going to be any orbital passes over the US. more »