Just crossed 55,000 logged at QRZ.com: Confirmed at QRZ.com is 71.6% A new country, if evenly spaced out, would be one out of every 256 QSOs (every 233 QSOs if the 21 unconfirmed DX Countries were confirmed at QRZ.com) Domestic QSOs account for 75.6% (so DX contacts average just under one-fourth) 73 Steve K9ZW

If you are of a certain age, you started with something like WordStar (or WordPerfect) most likely. Well those who want to continue have built archives to keep you going: https://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=5806 Anyone can have WordStar for DOS 7.0 up and running on a Windows computer in a matter of minutes using this archive; with just […]

If you are of a certain age, you started with something like WordStar (or WordPerfect) most likely. Well those who want to continue have built archives to keep you going: https://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=5806 Anyone can have WordStar for DOS 7.0 up and running on a Windows computer in a matter of minutes using this archive; with just… Continue reading Blast from the Past – WordStar 7.0 Archive

Everyone likes to think good about themselves, especially those who serve in the armed forces. Stories tend to be embellished over time –  Ten mile forced marches carrying that M-60 become Twenty mile hikes carrying several weapon systems after those stories are retold too many times. Some of the inflated things are cute. But when […]

Everyone likes to think good about themselves, especially those who serve in the armed forces. Stories tend to be embellished over time –  Ten mile forced marches carrying that M-60 become Twenty mile hikes carrying several weapon systems after those stories are retold too many times. Some of the inflated things are cute. But when… Continue reading A bit about Stolen Valor

Life has its own schedules and own demands.  Peacefully with family in attendance my mother died and we are in the midst of the funeral planning and execution, along with the dozens of other things that need to be done. Even when a death is gradual and gentle, there is that shaken reality when it […]

Life has its own schedules and own demands.  Peacefully with family in attendance my mother died and we are in the midst of the funeral planning and execution, along with the dozens of other things that need to be done. Even when a death is gradual and gentle, there is that shaken reality when it… Continue reading Don’t touch that dial – a brief hiatus (until after August 12th, 2024)

Distracted by a bunch of “right-now, real life” things, and family takes priority. Anticipating posting will mostly wait until I’m freed up, say in a week/ten-days. 73 Steve K9ZW

Received a welcomed update yesterday: Hi Steve, I wanted to give you a personal update on the status of your FLEX-8X00 series radio order. Our team has been working with incredible dedication and precision to bring this innovative product to you. I am pleased to report that our contract board manufacturer and internal assembly team […]

Distracted by a bunch of “right-now, real life” things, and family takes priority. Anticipating posting will mostly wait until I’m freed up, say in a week/ten-days. 73 Steve K9ZW

Received a welcomed update yesterday: Hi Steve, I wanted to give you a personal update on the status of your FLEX-8X00 series radio order. Our team has been working with incredible dedication and precision to bring this innovative product to you. I am pleased to report that our contract board manufacturer and internal assembly team… Continue reading FlexRadio Announces the 8000 series will Ship September 2024

I have someone I visit regularly who is on the “fourth floor” of a nursing home. Fourth Floor is also nicknamed “God’s Waiting Room” as usually the people there are quite frail and on their way out. It is where the frail go to die. A good number of the fourth floor residents have lost […]

Lots of distractions in the world. Stuff we hear, see and read about – like the deliberate insult of the Olympic opening show, the shots fired at ex-Presidents, and the canonisation efforts for the latest candidate who just days before was considered nothing & wanting – are maybe less about what is being promoted, as […]

I have someone I visit regularly who is on the “fourth floor” of a nursing home. Fourth Floor is also nicknamed “God’s Waiting Room” as usually the people there are quite frail and on their way out. It is where the frail go to die. A good number of the fourth floor residents have lost… Continue reading But never on the same day

Lots of distractions in the world. Stuff we hear, see and read about – like the deliberate insult of the Olympic opening show, the shots fired at ex-Presidents, and the canonisation efforts for the latest candidate who just days before was considered nothing & wanting – are maybe less about what is being promoted, as… Continue reading It’s a funny old world

We live in a world of disinformation. Where the certainty of the information we see & hear from various sources is unreliable at best, and absolutely manipulated at the worse. When factual information is suppressed erases the collective awareness of certain aspects of reality, substituting an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” manipulated narrative in place of […]

We live in a world of disinformation. Where the certainty of the information we see & hear from various sources is unreliable at best, and absolutely manipulated at the worse. When factual information is suppressed erases the collective awareness of certain aspects of reality, substituting an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth” manipulated narrative in place of… Continue reading Amateur Radio, perhaps your most real source of Information?

As mentioned a number of drafts didn’t make it past my efforts to finalize. Instead I dumped them. Hence the rather sudden breakdown in what had been a steady flow of posts. Will recreate some of the ideas in fresh writings, but it takes time. Have a lot going on at the moment, which makes […]

  Washington Island has a new internet based “radio” stream that is doing the community based FM project thing coming up. https://www.washingtonislandradio.com/ I’ve been too busy to follow the rule changes that have allowed this to happen or the actual Island project, but when they put out a call for some help I decided to […]