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Minnie’s Towels

reflection 1 Comment

I remember so clearly Minnie telling me to go downstairs and look in her cedar chest and get her towels that she had been saving. I was her caregiver now that she was bedfast, and I could not seem to keep up with all the washing of bedclothes and towels.
No telling how long she had […]

FIELD DAY 2008 JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE

amateur radio 2 Comments

 I guess if there is a theme to this years Field Day it would be,  “EVERYBODY DID THEIR PART”.    For instance, Wendell had family commitments and had to leave after helping set up everything,

AMATEUR RADIO STILL ALIVE AND WELL

Linky, amateur radio, software 2 Comments

Hey, get busy, learn something new, build a kit, experiment with a homebuilt antenna, subscribe to a good ham magazine like CQ VHF, go out this weekend for Field Day, bring your tent and stay the whole weekend, encourage a new ham to get on the Field Day station, help him […]

PREPARING FOR A TORNADO

amateur radio, rant, weather 1 Comment

Aaron,
After last night I got to seriously thinking about you guys living in a area that has lots of severe storms and what COULD happen to your little stick house when the big bad wolf starts blowing. Simply going to a inner room and climbing under a mattress does not sound like preparation for […]

Meteo-roids

Linky, amateur radio, software, space 2 Comments

Late last week I got this email from WB5RMG :

2007-06_Field Day

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WHEW! Field Day always is SO much fun but it takes the starch out of me, takes a day to get over all that fun in the sun. We had a very low turnout this year, but those that could make the time to come had a wonderful weekend.
We met on Friday night and […]

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