Both of the area clubs either canceled or sharply curtailed their Field Day activities when faced with harsh thunderstorms which dropped nearly five inches of rain, causing flooding and spawning at least six tornados in Wisconsin. As the stream between my house and my workshop hamshack flooded the roads to the hamshack, I decided it […]

Both of the area clubs either canceled or sharply curtailed their Field Day activities when faced with harsh thunderstorms which dropped nearly five inches of rain, causing flooding and spawning at least six tornados in Wisconsin. As the stream between my house and my workshop hamshack flooded the roads to the hamshack, I decided it… Continue reading Washed Out Field Day

  Finally I have the paperwork to be legally on the road. Wisconsin DMV took ten weeks in the process, until they were ready to issue paperwork and a downloadable printable “temporary license plate.” So on Monday I took the car from storage to my house for a photo session. I planted these apple trees […]

  Finally I have the paperwork to be legally on the road. Wisconsin DMV took ten weeks in the process, until they were ready to issue paperwork and a downloadable printable “temporary license plate.” So on Monday I took the car from storage to my house for a photo session. I planted these apple trees… Continue reading Out and About – CX 2400 Prestige Cmatic

Had been invited to a French car meet-up in Southern Wisconsin. Really more focused on Citroen cars. I couldn’t take the very new to me CX Prestige, as its paperwork & plates haven’t been issued. So I had intended to drive my CX Pallas Automatic, as it is a pretty plush ride, nicely air conditioned […]

Had been invited to a French car meet-up in Southern Wisconsin. Really more focused on Citroen cars. I couldn’t take the very new to me CX Prestige, as its paperwork & plates haven’t been issued. So I had intended to drive my CX Pallas Automatic, as it is a pretty plush ride, nicely air conditioned… Continue reading Non-Radio – Car Outing May 19th 2024

This week is the usual pre-Hamvention guessing game. Those not in the know guess at what will be announced and those who are in the know hide lest they spill the beans earlier than marketing’s official release moment. This 2024 cycle of suspense has all of us closely watching FlexRadio, Icom and Yaesu for product […]

This week is the usual pre-Hamvention guessing game. Those not in the know guess at what will be announced and those who are in the know hide lest they spill the beans earlier than marketing’s official release moment. This 2024 cycle of suspense has all of us closely watching FlexRadio, Icom and Yaesu for product… Continue reading Pre-Dayton (Xenia) Suspense

Up on Washington Island.  Great super smooth ride across on the newest of the ferries. Had trouble getting to sleep as the solar storm’s Aurora was quite bright. Alison’s Citroen 2CV6 ended up with a broken front grill over the winter. Thought something hit it, but investigating glued repairs found the plastic grill had simply […]

Presently I have three Citroen CX cars. 1981 CX Athena 5-speed 2.0L car with the later CX engine design, with about 27,000 miles on the clock 1981 CX 2400 Pallas Automatic with A/C and about 47,000 miles on it’s clock 1978 CX 2400 Prestige Cmatic with dual-A/C and only about 14,000 miles on it Most […]

The backstory on the Citroen CX 2400 Prestige Cmatic is fairly interesting. Of the CX models the Prestige is basically a factory standard extended length model, intended for executive and governmental use.  Initially extended 10 inches by sharing the station wagon chassis, the Prestige was a low volume model, often custom specified. This particular car […]

My latest Citroen CX arrived today (18 April 2024) transported by the ever friendly Applewood Motor Transport from Baltimore. The car fortunately was disembarked and transported to climate controlled storage prior to the bridge disaster by a few days. As our local weather was very threatening at delivery, I forgot to do pictures until after […]

James Wesley, Rawles (JWR) (he like to use a comma between given names and his surname) recently updated an evolving article on investing, ending it on a topic that resonates with me – education. INVESTING IN YOUR EDUCATION I’d like to end this essay with an aside: In my estimation, there is only one intangible […]

Both of my PACTOR projects have had some progress, but neither is up and running.  Jeff KE9V was the most recent fellow ham to ask how I was coming, and adapted from what I emailed back to him: I have two Pactor projects – a listen-only project (PMon) and the main Pactor Dragon DR7800 project. […]