I received an e-mail with a question from a reader. "Why don't you do videos like so many others seem to be doing?"

I have delved into making a few videos in the past. Unlike the really good videos you find on YouTube, mine have been done with my phone. To make a video properly, and one that is worth watching and is actually enjoyable to watch, you need more equipment than I can muster. One or more cameras of decent quality are required, a decent tripod, and good editing software and a decent computer to run it all on. The most important ingredient, though, is time.

Between work, home responsibilities and some other commitments that I have, I barely find enough time to get on the air and play radio! Making videos at this point would just eat up precious time that I do not have right now. I am hoping, hoping, hoping to retire next May on the occasion of my 68th birthday. If I can do that, maybe I can begin to think about creating a video or two.

However, maybe this weekend during FOBB, I will take some footage with my phone and cobble something together with the free editing software that I have on my laptop to see if I can make something worth watching. It will be rudimentary at best. And believe me, if I think it turns out like a piece of .........., I will not irritate your eyes and ears with something terrible.

In the meantime, W2LJ will just keep on plain ol' vanilla blogging.

The extended weather out look for South Plainfield. Looks like Sunday may be the beginning of yet another heatwave. I hope that personal neck fan arrives in time!

QRP - When you care to send the very least!

 I read blogs! It's my preferred method of tooling around the internet.

I read Simon Willison's blog to fill me in on the latest in LLM AIs. I read Thomas Witherspoon's blog to hear about a variety of ham radio QRP (low power < 5 Watts) operations and POTA (Parkds on the Air) activations. I reach W6CSN's blog to keep abreast of what's going on POTA-wise around me here in San Francisco. I also find things that I think are super-cool that have nothing to do with what I set out to learn.

For example, reading Simon's blog two days ago, I wound up at this really nice post from Andrew Stephens about well, reading blogs. So, that was kinda meta, but here's the cool part. I'm a huge Edward Tufte fan. Reading sheep.horse on a cell phone, I didn't notice the big reveal right away, but as I toodled around the site, I found it! Holy smokes! There's a CSS package that formats web documents like an Edward Tufte book! Or handout. I just learned about handouts yesterday as well!

Blogs are cool. Here's another post about reading blogs to create a different web.

I want to thank all our followers and subscribers for making stationproject.blog a useful and popular resource for the Amateur Radio community. We’ve hit a significant milestone of late – we’ve surpassed 1 Million views. We very much appreciate your support for our site!

Fred, AB1OC

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