In preparation for the Fox Mike Hotel Portable Ops Team to activate Issaquena County (see post on this blog), I discovered that we did not have two antennas that would tune to 80 meters. Team member Glen KW5GP was bringing a Buddipole that tunes from 40-10 meters (he didn’t have the 80M coil). I was […]
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Baby, It Was Cold Outside….
Frank Loesser’s 1944 song, Baby, It’s Cold Outside, was number one on the Hit Parade in Mayersville, MS during last Saturday’s Mississippi QSO Party. We were guests of Mayor Shorter and permitted to use Russell Park there for our planned morning outing to activate the rare Issaquena County. I had organized the first outing for […]
DX Dynasty! (warning: humor ahead)
Like many with a few minutes between tasks, I engage in humorous pursuits…sometimes gigging my friends with modified pictures and so forth. With the recent boom in popularity for the duck hunting empire that is Duck Dynasty, I created a fictitious advertisement for the largest advertiser in QST and CQ Magazine. (You know something is […]