Category Archives: Amateur Radio

I can’t believe it’s been 4 months since I wrote the last post.  Most of it has to do with that old “out of sight, out of mind” thing.  I Continue Reading →

I want to move on to more interesting material in this blog.  But, my CDO nature (it’s like OCD, but with the words in the right order) won’t let me Continue Reading →

The General Class is much the same material as the Technician Class, but covered in more depth.  For this endeavor I picked up a used copy of ARRL’s General Class Continue Reading →

The dark secret of amateur radio is that it’s just like any other hobby: more expensive than it looks. And when I say that, I don’t mean it has to Continue Reading →

I felt I was ready, it was time to find an exam. As I mentioned before, the exams are now administered by the amateur radio community through VECs (Voluntary Examination Continue Reading →

My desire to get back into amateur radio coincided with my preparations to return to the corporate world. After 18 months of working for myself vending antique hand tools online Continue Reading →

As I mentioned in the last post, I was in the process of pulling together some electronic stuff to do with Marcus. One of the things that I got was Continue Reading →

It all started innocently enough, I gotten Marcus one of those old “unsafe” electronics experimenter kits that Radio Shack used to sell in the 80s and 90s. Happily you can Continue Reading →