Tag: paddles
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Sandwich Hamfest, and the answer to a question
Going to Sandwich is a brief but major upheaval in life: go to bed early, get up at midnight and drive until dawn. Shop till ya drop. Drive home. (to read about this process in detail, see last years post) Does that make it sound awful? It’s really a lot of fun. People I only…
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A bunch of unrelated stuff
I finally finished my WFD log I use an open-source program called Xlog (the only one I can get to work right with my various Linux Mint computers) to produce electronic logs from my pencil-and-paper ones; it makes a very nice ADIF file that Parks On The Air accepts with no problems, but when I…
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Mid-September omnibus
Word cloud I think I see the problem: Blue skies Here in Wisconsin on a clear, not-too-humid day with fresh wilderness air the sky can be as blue as the sky in a Miyazaki film. Touch paddles 1.1 Serpent! Kickapoo River Thanks for visiting driftlessqrp!
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Touch paddle project
Updated! This project got started in October last year and is finally (mostly) finished! After the first failure came a redesign, and some very intermittent work on it. A few days ago I started to work toward wrapping it all up: I salvaged the touch sensors and paddle pieces, gently cutting a saw kerf in…
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Mid-March omnibus
A summary of what’s been happening lately Tomorrow (the 19th) is the first day of Spring! Astronomical Spring, that is. Meteorological Spring already happened on the 1st; I suppose they do that for consistency in their statistical calculating, makes it easier to just move along and ignore all of that messy real-world stuff. Quick vignettes…
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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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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!…
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CW practice continues
I am using just about every device I own that is capable of sending Morse these days, toward my goal of being a competent CW operator by Spring. Wherever I am, if I have a few moments to spare I have some way of practicing sending and/or receiving. There’s the KD1JV Morse Trainer, a W1REX…
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A quick paddle base
A month or two ago I spotted this little paddle on Amazon and bought one, just because I like straight keys and paddles and I’m always willing to add another one to the collection. Only real issue was the 3 little magnets that were used for feet; on any surface other than steel it…