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And now for something completely different …
Saving animals from the front lines in Ukraine Doing animal rescue in a war zone shows impressive commitment. These people are doing great work under difficult conditions and need support! Follow this link to learn more about what they are doing, and please consider donating! I did! Thanks for visiting driftlessqrp!
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re: comments on posts
Clearing out spam comments from the blog’s inbox is a chore that I would prefer to avoid, but it has to be done from time to time … most of it is obvious trash or disguised invitations to download malware … the ones purporting to inform me that “you have received 1.3167 bitcoin, click here”,…
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A big coronal mass ejection (CME)
last weekend completely wiped out the HF bands for days. The auroras might have been cool, but overcast skies precluded observation.
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Winter is here
Thanksgiving Day in the Driftless; overcast, breezy, 20s outside. Inside, a chicken roasting with kale and root vegetables. Huge salad, butternut squash, 2 kinds of soup; almost all local, some from our garden. Went to the spring earlier for fresh water, then hiked a mile or so on a county park trail just to enjoy…
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Adding a solar data thing …
… to see how it works. it’s a snippet of HTML: inside a “Custom HTML” block. The snippet above is in a “Code” block. I don’t have a sidebar to put it in, though; maybe stick it down on the bottom of the page ? hmm, okay; seems to work at the bottom in the…
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Hamfest!
It was quarter-to-one Sunday morning when I got up to go to the De Kalb Radio Club’s hamfest in Sandwich, Illinois. I barely had time to shave, dress, and make enough coffee to fill both a big reused Kwik-Trip cup and one of the larger vacuum bottles before it was time to toss my packs…
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Well, here’s something new: a Wildcat Mountain trifecta
I enjoy hiking in a lot of different ways; sometimes all-eyes-and-ears observing the sight and sounds of life all around; sometimes meditative and full of the spirit of shinrin-yoku; often a mixture of both; sometimes (not often) it’s just pushing along to get to the end of the trail. Today, I don’t know quite why,…
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Mill Bluff Trifecta! and a few random notes
Saturday morning I was up early and managed to get out for a hike before the sun was up; Mill Bluff State Park was my choice. I avoided the three deer crossing the highway and made it to the park just a bit after dawn. Since I had so much time I thought I would…
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A post about many things
re: Field Day 2023 The December issue of QST arrived a while ago and I invested maybe 15 minutes looking through the fine print for my score: 440 points. I think that my claimed bonus for Public Information Display was rejected; not unfairly mind you, it was a bit skimpy. Eh, surest way to fail…
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An amusing juxtaposition
seen on the kitchen table yesterday. Nothing, otherwise; certainly no radio; home DIY is absorbing a lot of time as a project draws to a close. Maybe next week, right? (rueful lol) Thanks for visiting! Please leave a comment if you get what I found amusing in that picture, or if you just have a…
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happy anniversary, driftlessqrp!
It’s been a year, today! Onward to many more years of hiking, and radio, and blogging here!
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Touch paddle project, with updates
October 24th: I want to start off with a word of praise for UPS; yesterday evening my package was in Louisville KY; this morning at 5:30 it was in Rockford IL; but I lacked faith, I didn’t believe it would get here today … and there it was on my doorstep at 3! Thanks, UPS!…