While the rest of the country gets slammed with ice and snow, Seattle-land has gotten a foot of snow over the last five days - and it is all still here. Highly unusual. Since Seattle doesn't use salt for the roads and sidewalks, when the ...
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Club Program Ideas: 100-pound DXpedition
In this series on Club Program ideas, I’m providing possible programs for clubs to use in their meetings. You can find a full explanation of the approach in Club Programs – The Series. ...
Dayton Radar is finally clear
Looks like the last of the rain finally went away. Radar at 18:55 UTC: My onsite buddy, Eric, K9GY, reports good weather, but still windy. One of the flea market vendors reported selling $1,200 of stuff ...
Surge Protect Your Whole House
On the Tower Talk Reflector, there has been a good discussion on "whole house" surge protectors. I had not seen anything like this until I watched "Holmes on Homes" on the Discovery Channel. The host of the show is now installing these surge ...
Contesting University at Dayton 2008
I'm a bit late getting to this, but the successful Contesting University held last year at the Dayton Hamvention now has open registration for the 2008 session. The biggest twist to this year's session is that there will be Graduate level sessions for ...
Phoenix
It was an uneventful ride from Seattle to Phoenix. US Airways had a nice flight. With all the time changes, I never really know the actual flight time until I get on the plane and they announce it. The flight time to Phoenix was about two hours and thirty ...
Software Maintenance Fees
Every once in a blue moon, someone goes on an e-mail reflector somewhere and complains about the cost of the subscription or maintenance fees associated with a program. That event happened over the weekend on the WriteLog reflector. It's really about the perception of value to the user paying the ...
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