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 […]
Category: Yaesu
Is that a Comet I see up there?
I’ve wanted to get a decent VHF and UHF antenna up so I can check out area repeaters around Starkville. My base rig is a Yaesu 8900R, a quad-band rig that is described by Yaesu as: YAESU FT-8900R29/50/144/430 MHz FM Transceiver “The FT-8900R is a ruggedly-built, high quality Quad Band FM transceiver providing 50 Watts […]
SDR, Here I Come!
A couple of days ago, I ordered the Flex 3000, software-defined radio from Flex Radio (www.flex-radio.com). I’ve had a Perseus SDR receiver for a a couple of years now. I’ve also been a chip-head regarding computing for some 30 years now….developing wide-area networks during the early 1980s to scientific data visualization applications during the 1990s, […]