Blog O'Stuff

Last month I picked up a Mauser C-96 Broomhandle . I got it to the range after detail stripping it, cleaning out the last bits of the Wester...

Over on Survivalpreps, clickenzee here .

I had my first QSO using my Yaesu FT-817ND QRP rig and the Ultimax-100 antenna on my roof. Transmitting on 5 watts using the PSK-31 mode, I ...

As Tam likes to say, "The Internet likes gun pics." So, here's a pic of my latest acquisition, something I've wanted sinc...

I got the chance to fire off a few rounds of CCI Quiet .22 LR yesterday. It's a 40 grain lead round nose bullet at 710 FPS. Last month I...

This site has a ton of old books on everything from farming to Boy Scout manuals, engineering, chemistry, education, and radio. They can be ...

Check it out on my other blog: http://survivalpreps.blogspot.com/2014/10/kovea-lpg-adapter.html

10/07/2014 Late last month, a security breach occurred, involving a web server at ARRL Headquarters. ARRL IT Manager Mike Keane, K1MK...

N2EI has made his book, Radio Monitoring A How To Guide, freely available under the Creative Commons License.  Go download it here . { Hat...

Cody Wilson, the guy who made the antigunners piss their pants with a 3D printed guns, is at it again. This time, it is a mini CNC mill tha...

Last year I posted about the 12th anniversary of 9/11 , and find that what I wrote one year ago still reflects my feelings. Only now, we’ve ...

Up until recently one downside of getting the Baofeng UV-5R A HT was that the extra capacity batteries made for the other variants of the U...

As reported in the news over the past couple days, the Earth was hit by a solar flare on 9/9.  An X-class coronal mass ejection is following...

Ray, W3PRR, asked me for help on configuring Fldigi running on a Mac with OS 10.9.4 so that it can control an Icom 7200 radio. Here’s how I ...

This morning I drove down to MicroCenter and bought a Crucial MX100 256 GB SSD (Amazon link), which I used to upgrade my mid-2009 MacBook P...

The Baofeng UV5R and variants like the UV5RA have become popular with preppers because they are a very low cost way to get into ham radio....

As you may remember, my primary computing platform for the past several years has been a Mac. I've also maintained Windows PCs at home ...

Portable HF ops -- over on Survival Preps .

Over on The High Road, “marb4” posted a thread in which he tested the penetration and expansion of several different loads from small handgu...

Yesterday I took a vacation day and went for a hike in French Creek State Park in SE PA. It was my first chance to try out my new Hill Peopl...