Went to Belton, TX for the Ham Radio Expo held there twice a year. Big swapmeet and convention. Picked up a trunk-lip antenna mount for the car and a multiband antenna for HF — 80m through 2m. Cool thing about the antenna is that instead of using lossy traps to keep the antenna resonant for …
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Mobile Power Project: Ham Radio On the Go!
Intent: It seems minor, but installing the power cables for a ham radio in a car is a major project if you want it done right. After months of thoughts and tactics, I made good on my plan to install a 25 Amp circuit into my car to power my portable amateur radio equipment. I’ve …
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Flex
Car’s gone. Got hauled off today. Check is in the mail. Today’s been one of those days where you pick up your shoes three times and drop them every damn time. Extremities are tingling; I think I have circulation problems. Or a pinched nerve. Or too much caffeine on a daily basis. Caffeine’s a vasoconstrictor. …
On Fourty-Two
The past week has been one of meeting my limits and deciding that I had no choice but to push through them. I’ve had to start riding my bike as my sole mode of transportation because, as many of you know, my car was T-boned by a Suburban with a cattle guard last week while …
Clutched
The horse I ride in on is a 14-year-old Honda Civic with 147,000 miles. It is completely bought and paid for, and completely mine. And it has problems: old mare problems. I’ve been having issues where my transmission was taking too long to shift between gears when the engine is cold. For a year, I …